Exhibition Karla Leyva & Geneva Sills

     Chalton Gallery presents the exhibition 'Karla Leyva & Geneva Sills'. The images included in the exhibition allude to the human body and its connection with states of mind. They show fragments of the female body along with other figures that carry a symbolic charge.

     The exhibition, curated by Paula Zambrano, brings together a selection of new and recent works by an artist based in Mexico City and another from Glasgow.

     Sills investigates questions of gender and sexual politics; her photos are charged with a flirtatious attitude, a sensual standpoint. A quiet and simple kind of eroticism, inspired by a single photograph produced by Paul Outerbridge.

     Leyva, on the other hand, is concerned with the formal expression of emotions and moods; her photos contain some kind of anxiety, a subtle pain. She is interested in the relation of volume and two-dimensional image.

 Karla Leyva
(Monterrey, México, 1979)

 

     Recently graduated from the Soma Education Program in Mexico City. She has presented his work in collective and individual exhibitions and International festivals. At the end of 2016 she published her first book under the seal of Colección Circulo de Arte. More recently, she was selected in the Biennial Femsa XII, receiving honorific mention and awarded the Femsa residency in France in 2017.

Geneva Sills
(b. Chicago, U.S, 1987)

     Earned her MFA from the Glasgow school of Art in 2012. Since studying she has lived and worked between Glasgow and Chicago, exhibiting in both cities as well as further afield. Most recently, Sills staged her first solo exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow Intermedia Gallery in November/December of 2016.

 

Where:
Chalton Gallery , 96 Chalton St, NW1 1HJ Londres.

When:
11-16 April / Presentation14th April 17:00 – 21:00 hrs

Website:
http://www.chaltongallery.org/
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