WHEN:
January 10 – February 21, 2025
WHERE:
Sean Kelly, New York
475 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
For more information and tickets visit the Sean Kelly website.
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...Ana González’s first solo exhibition in New York. The paintings and tapestries on view in Bruma depict the flora and fauna of González’s native Colombia and represent the ecosystems under threat from industries seeking to exploit them for their natural resources. González’s practice opposes the disappearance of these habitats, not only warning us of what will be lost in their destruction but proposing new ways to relate to the natural world. Brumaengages with the vast ecological and human history of these landscapes encouraging the viewer to see our environment in a new way. There will be an opening from 6 to 8 pm. The artist will be present.
The works on view in Bruma were developed in response to González’s travels through the cloud forests of Colombia, an isolated region in the Andes Mountains which is both incredibly biodiverse – only an estimated ten percent of its species have been cataloged – and endangered by deforestation and climate change. In González’s paintings, the wax palms and other plants native to the Andes Mountains emerge from washes of white paint, referencing the mist that gives the forests and the exhibition their name. These landscapes reappear in the artist’s Devastations series, textiles onto which the artist prints photographs of Colombia’s vulnerable ecosystems. The monumental five-part work, QUIMBAYA offers a panoramic view of the cloud forest, capturing in monochromatic green the verdant abundance of the forest at an immersive scale. Here, as in all her Devastations works, González has partially unraveled the tapestry, disrupting the coherence of the image and physically representing the ravaging of these sites..."
