Iván Argote (Bogotá, Colombia, 1983) lives and works between Paris and Bogotá. Through sculpture, installation, video, and public intervention, his practice questions official historical narratives, collective memory, and structures of power. His works propose new ways of engaging with public space, exploring how monuments, architecture, and national symbols shape identity and shared experience.

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© Courtesy Studio Iván Argote.

ASMA is an artist duo formed by Hanya Beliá (Mexico, 1994) and Matías Armendariz (Ecuador, 1990). Based in Mexico City, their multidisciplinary practice explores transformation, mythology, and liminal states through sculpture, installation, and speculative fiction.

Photo: ASMA, Ciudad de México. Photo by Rodrigo Álvarez, courtesy of PEANA.

Sophie Barber (London, United Kingdom, 1996) lives and works in London. Through painting, her practice explores the memory of images and the ways art history is circulated, transformed, and reinterpreted. Her works bring together references to artists, photographs, books, and everyday objects through a deliberately direct pictorial language in which the materiality of the support plays a central role.

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Bianca Bondi (Johannesburg, South Africa, 1986) lives and works in Paris, France. Through installation, sculpture, and the use of organic materials, her practice explores the relationships between transformation, memory, and spirituality, creating environments in which natural processes such as crystallization, oxidation, and evaporation continue to alter the works over time.


© Photo: Guillaume Blot. Courtesy Bianca Bondi

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Sara Cwynar (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1985) lives and works in New York. Through photography, video, installation, and graphic design, her practice investigates how images produce desire, construct value, and shape collective memory. Bringing together her own photographs, archival material, found objects, and advertising strategies, her works examine the relationship between consumption, representation, and contemporary visual culture.

Dalton Gata (Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, 1977) lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Originally trained in fashion design, he develops a multidisciplinary practice encompassing painting, drawing, photography, and installation. His work draws from Surrealism, Caribbean culture, fashion, popular culture, personal memory, and experiences of migration. Through portraiture, still life, and symbolic landscapes, Gata challenges conventional models of beauty, gender, and identity, constructing worlds in which bodily transformation, self-expression, vulnerability, and desire coexist with fantastic elements and intimate references.

Ileana García Magoda (Mexico City, Mexico, 1987) lives and works in Valle de Bravo, Mexico. Through painting, her practice explores the relationships between the body, time, and natural processes, developing working methodologies that privilege attention, rhythm, and the materiality of gesture.

Yann Gerstberger (Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, 1983) lives and works in Cuixmala. Through textiles, painting, and sculpture, his practice investigates the expressive possibilities of found and recycled materials. Using processes of assemblage, dyeing, and embroidery, he transforms everyday objects into richly textured surfaces where references to craft, abstraction, and popular culture coexist.

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John Giorno (New York, USA, 1936–2019) was a north american poet, artist, and activist. A pioneering figure in Performance Poetry, he developed an interdisciplinary practice that brought together writing, performance, and activism. Deeply influenced by Tibetan Buddhism, he explored the visual and sonic potential of language, expanding poetry into painting, installation, audio, and performance.

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John Giorno at 222 Bowery. 2018. Photo by Marco Anelli.

Parker Ito (Long Beach, California, USA, 1986) lives and works in Los Angeles. Through painting, sculpture, and installation, his practice examines how images circulate and transform within digital culture. Combining obsolete technologies, industrial processes, and traditional painterly techniques, his works question notions of originality, authorship, and reproduction in the age of the contemporary image.

Kapwani Kiwanga (Hamilton, Ontario, Canadá, 1978) es una artista franco-canadiense que vive y trabaja en París. A través de la escultura, la instalación, el video y la investigación histórica, su práctica examina las estructuras de poder, los legados del colonialismo y los sistemas mediante los cuales el conocimiento es construido, preservado y transmitido.

Photo: Angela Scamarcio

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Enrique López Llamas (Mexico City, Mexico, 1987) lives and works in Mexico City. Through painting, drawing, and image appropriation, his practice investigates the relationships between art history, contemporary visual culture, and the construction of memory. His works bring together references from different periods and contexts to explore the ways images generate meaning.
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Photo: Cortesía del artista y LLANO Galería.

Jenine Marsh (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1994) lives and works in Toronto. Through sculpture, drawing, and installation, her practice investigates the materiality of everyday objects and the ways historical, political, and literary narratives shape our understanding of the present. Her works combine processes of material transformation with textual references to explore the tensions between the domestic, the utopian, and the ephemeral.

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Courtesy of the artist and Cooper Cole, Toronto

Ad Minoliti (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1980) lives and works in Buenos Aires. Their practice uses geometry and color to construct a non-binary speculative fiction that serves as the foundation for different bodies of work. For Minoliti, geometry is a tool through which to represent and investigate the possibility of a nonhuman heterotopia: an alternative universe in which gender theories can be applied to pictorial language, expanding the ways in which we understand and experience the visual world. From this framework, their work engages with modernism, fetish, education, architecture and design, queer feminism, science fiction, and disability studies. Their paintings and installations extend abstraction into space, proposing environments in which human, animal, vegetal, and technological categories remain open to new forms of relation.

Erin Jane Nelson (Roswell, Georgia, USA, 1989) is an American artist who lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. Working across photography, ceramics, and sculpture, her practice investigates the relationships between the body, landscape, and ecological systems, combining photographic imagery with sculptural and handcrafted processes.

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Alberto Perera (Barcelona, Spain, 1980) lives and works in Mexico City. Through drawing, ceramics, video and performance, his practice explores vulnerability and the grotesque through humour, absurdity, and a deliberately kitsch aesthetic. His work intertwines references to art history and popular imagery, crafting worlds in which the boundaries between reality and fiction remain deliberately unstable.

Created especially for An Obsession with Flowers, the work is conceived as a series of vignettes that together form a wallpaper. The illustrations draw on scenes and characters from the works of Marcel Proust and Mario Bellatin that frame the exhibition, which Perera fragments and reimagines by incorporating figures from other visual imaginaries alongside characters of his own invention. Flowers move through the different scenes not simply as ornamental elements, but as agents within the narrative: they become hiding places, objects of desire, vehicles of escape, or disproportionate presences. Repeated across the wall, the illustrations form a continuous landscape in which literary references are transformed through unexpected, irreverent, and absurd associations.

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Tourmaline (Rochester, New York, USA, 1983) (Rochester, Nueva York, Estados Unidos, 1983) es una artista, cineasta, escritora y activista estadounidense que vive y trabaja en Nueva York. A través del cine, la fotografía y la escritura, su práctica recupera historias de comunidades afroamericanas y trans, imaginando nuevas formas de memoria, placer y liberación.