Nothing to Hide

NOTHING TO HIDE: The Feminine Landscape of 12 Latin American Artists is an exhibition of emerging, mid-career and renowned artists, two of whom have been invited to represent national pavilions at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015. 

These women reflect and project their feminine perspectives on the social landscape based on a contemporary society that has deep roots in ancestral cultures that to this day still survive in rituals, beliefs and traditions.

Their works point to an orphanhood in a society dismantled of sense, a society that is contradictory and fraught with violence. They reveal the failure of colonialism and its illusion of eliminating diversity by forcing the assimilation of a corrupted, complex identity that is difficult to decipher or be represented. In building their own visual representations, these attuned artists embody cultures that want to so loudly and openly speak out. It is a social instinct shaking Latin America's communities in various ways--a cry of a society in turmoil that aims to overcome social exclusion and discrimination. They channel the whispers of immigrants and young girls with no hopes on the horizon, and the lamentation of indigenous people living between the asphalt and the vertigo.

As such, the works of these artists assume a melancholy and poetic weight while remaining direct in their decry. Delving into secret female perceptions, and the primitive mystery of Mother Earth, they contain layers of meanings and readings.