KATES-FERRI PROJECTS is proud to debut at UNTITLED ART in Miami with HIS(HER)TORY, an exhibition featuring artists C.J. Chueca, Turiya Magadlela and Dana Robinson, on view from November 29 to December 3, 2022 (Booth #A55).

All three female artists challenge the canon of art history and its lack of inclusion of female artists.  In this exhibition each artist is working with a medium which uniquely explores their relationship with the female gaze, touching upon issues of inclusion, gender inequities and outdated gender roles. By unapologetically stating women’s voices, the artists push the cultural needle forward and claim a seat at the contemporary art table. “As a gallery owner it's my desire and responsibility to elevate female artists and women’s voices in the artworld, shining a light on the underrepresented” says founder Natalie Kates.

C.J. Chueca is a conceptual artist based in Peru and Brooklyn. On view is a series of ceramic airplane windows, We Are Night And Day, through which Chueca reinterprets the notion of traveling, physically and metaphorically, to capture the duality of everybody's journey through life. “We pass through bright moments as well as through somber ones”. As if we were flying in an aircraft watching the horizon change, as the hours of the day pass, as the locations change, our lives also change. “I choose to use ceramic in an attempt to freeze the fast pace of time. I also embrace the textures and fissures characteristic of the materiality of ceramics to talk about chance and memory scars caused by moving.”

Turiya Magadlela is a contemporary artist based in South Africa, creates powerful and compelling works of art using materials such as women’s nylon pantyhose stitched together and stretched over canvas to create active color theories. On view is a massive nylon diptych titled Theta Tati – Talk to me Father. These works convey the artist’s concerns with the fragility of women around the world and their lack of equality: “I am drawn to matters that concern me, such as the way women are treated in my country of Africa, with the violent cutting of female circumcision in newborn babies and young girls. I speak to the misfortunes of inequalities in female-based industries as well as matters such as ageism, racialism, and how capitalism without concern for moral values has left many women and children in hell holes all around the world.” Turiya also brings attention to consumerism and greed that leaves vast amounts of pollution dumped in Africa: “We have rich European and American individuals who use our land for leisure without consideration of local needs and local struggles and governments who allow this to happen because they lack resources -, for example, we do not manufacture our own clothes and our own food. Meanwhile, China’s produces items in excess that are rejected in the first world and get dumped on our shores.”

Dana Robinson is a Brooklyn based multidisciplinary artist addressing the topics of youth, Black feminine identity, ownership and nostalgia through combining, reproducing and dissecting vintage Black media. “The way these images of Blackness circulate through my practice creates the possibility for us to deviate from the standards set out for us between the pages of the media I collect.” From her Ebony Reprinted Series on view are 12 monoprints on panel: “My monoprints present the healing possibilities of abstraction. Using images that circulated in printed advertisements I remove traces of exploitative, white dominated capitalist visual language, thereby allowing the individuals in these images to regain their agency in the world.” As the images are translated into paint, and that paint is intently smeared, pressed, and textured, the human beings at the center of these manipulative images become at once more abstract and exponentially more present.

Exhibition Catalogue       Art Works on View: C.J. Chueca, Turiya Magadlela & Dana Robinson Available Works on Artsy Available Works on ArtLand Exhibition on YouTube