Descripción de la Exposición
Spinello Projects is proud to present Day In, Day Out, a solo exhibition by Cuban-born Miami-based artist Clara Varas. The exhibition, spanning two rooms, features painting and assemblage, on view at the Gesamtkunstwerk Building located at 2930 NW 7th Avenue through July 31, by appointment only. This will be her third solo exhibition with the gallery.
In Clara Varas’ latest exhibition Day In, Day Out she uses detritus from her surroundings to create a visual understanding of the intersectionality of the abject landscape. Marine, metal, and “fashion” are industries that surround the artist’s studio. This is the abject landscape—it is blighted, culturally rich, highly textured and layered, somehow forgotten but completely essential. Here, ‘home’ includes it’s displacement and who it makes someone. Time bears down on all objects used in the compositions. The body is a machine working in tandem and dependent on all that which was once not trash. What was once domestic, then became urban waste, and now exists in a still life or displaced composition.
Metal scrap yards and freight shipping empires on the banks of the Miami River, the now wasted and polluted wild waterway, obscure fashion strip malls, and the tropicality of the Latin American diaspora all obscurely collide in Varas’ mark making. Varas freezes this specific place and time, grabbing at its contradictions and details and places it in an abstraction of a still life. Objects assigned to genders or that allude to our bodies are constantly expanding their meaning and usage. Vara paints with these objects in space, and in that, records an engagement between herself, her neighbors, and where they live. Varas is moved by the immediacy of stuff; the personal becomes the collective, especially when someone’s things get somehow abandoned on the streets. Abstraction is materialized by hard and soft objects in works that teeter the line between totem and heap. Considering the unnoticed labor input by the people working in the area, this installation plots the objects that represent their specific environment in another space with its own working class history at the Gesamkunstwerk Building.
"This exhibition is dedicated to the tired and the weary- the ones that get up at the crack of dawn to drive the trucks, to stock the shelves, to pick the fruit, to make the things, to teach the children, to give the care, to punch a clock- day in, day out."
— Clara Varas
Exposición. 31 oct de 2024 - 09 feb de 2025 / Artium - Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo / Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava, España
Formación. 07 nov de 2024 - 28 nov de 2024 / Museo Nacional del Prado / Madrid, España
