BARRO is pleased to announce Alejandra Seeber’s solo show at
EXPO CHICAGO. EXPOSURE Section is curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin (Director and Chief Curator of Visual Arts at the Americas Society). EXPO CHICAGO 13–16 April 2023. Navy Pier, CHICAGO, USA. BARRO Booth 471

Alejandra Seeber presents a group of paintings of different sizes on a grid and some glass and ceramic sculptures.

Seeber’s paintings have a visual morphology in common. They are reticular images shaping different formations: knits, waves, spores, a brick- like structure, and a honeycomb-like structure.

The paintings are hanging on a network of uniformly spaced horizontal and perpendicular lines. The images are geometrical patterns of different types of net-like structures situated on a system of control operating entirely in the perception field.

The installation opens strange portals in the mind-stretching realm. The fragmental images replicate themselves into different works of art, using motifs such as body parts, bricks, and waves. In the paintings and sculptures, there are legs and backsides, shredded lakes, snippets of landscapes, formations of beings, and collapsed objects from multiple realities. For instance, she creates a bag with holes from which small plants emerge; the back of the sculpture resembles a brick wall.

Seeber traces a system of signification distorting the notion of space and its visuality. The paintings and sculptures display rare events, so you need a sharp and keen eye to understand what you see; for Alejandra Seeber, an extra dimension may exist close to our familiar reality. It means there is a much richer universe at some deep underlying level.

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