Hannah Traore Gallery is pleased to present new work by the photographer and visual artist Camila Falquez at NADA Miami. Falquez’s solo presentation was one of eight chosen to be featured in Curated Spotlight, a special section at NADA sponsored by TD Bank and curated by Jenée-Daria Strand, Assistant Curator at Public Art Fund. The work of each artist in Curated Spotlight exemplifies exciting and multi-modal creative practices—whether in physical form or concept—reflecting a dynamic creative ethos emerging across the art world today.
Compiling unreleased photographs from various series, this chorus of portraits emanates with the light found in individuals who—as the gender-non-conforming poet and performer Alok Menon once characterized Falquez’s subjects—“Manifest the Impossible.” Cloaked with raw silk dyed in brilliant colors, Falquez transforms the symbol of draped fabric in Western historical painting into a new visual language, liberating, expanding, and re-framing notions of power and beauty in art history. Through her research, Falquez explores how fabric in European painting was used as an emblem of wealth, colonial imperialism, and Catholicism. Offering a fresh interpretation of the material, Falquez reimagines fabric as a tool used to reclaim ancestral history for each of her portrait’s subjects. Once framed with fabric, people with textured voices, bodies, and circumstances are transported into a new center and plane; these are guardians of a world that exists all around us but must be illuminated through platform, celebration, participation, and solidarity.
Hannah Traore Gallery is pleased to present new work by the photographer and visual artist Camila Falquez at NADA Miami. Falquez’s solo presentation was one of eight chosen to be featured in Curated Spotlight, a special section at NADA sponsored by TD Bank and curated by Jenée-Daria Strand, Assistant Curator at Public Art Fund. The work of each artist in Curated Spotlight exemplifies exciting and multi-modal creative practices—whether in physical form or concept—reflecting a dynamic creative ethos emerging across the art world today.
Compiling unreleased photographs from various series, this chorus of portraits emanates with the light found in individuals who—as the gender-non-conforming poet and performer Alok Menon once characterized Falquez’s subjects—“Manifest the Impossible.” Cloaked with raw silk dyed in brilliant colors, Falquez transforms the symbol of draped fabric in Western historical painting into a new visual language, liberating, expanding, and re-framing notions of power and beauty in art history. Through her research, Falquez explores how fabric in European painting was used as an emblem of wealth, colonial imperialism, and Catholicism. Offering a fresh interpretation of the material, Falquez reimagines fabric as a tool used to reclaim ancestral history for each of her portrait’s subjects. Once framed with fabric, people with textured voices, bodies, and circumstances are transported into a new center and plane; these are guardians of a world that exists all around us but must be illuminated through platform, celebration, participation, and solidarity.
