Chantal Peñalosa
[Image description: A closeup of Chantal looking into the camera. She has light skin and long brown hair, and wears a black t-shirt.]
Through gestures and actions that intervene in everyday life, Chantal Peñalosa establishes dialogues with entities that apparently cannot respond: memories, rumors, architecture, stones, clouds, aromas, or gestures. Performative actions archived in photographs, sculptures, installations, publications, or videos. Her explorations dialogue with phenomena such as waiting, the unnoticed, and the passage of time, shining light on political and social issues. She’s recently been working on art history and literature passages that seem to be forever on stand by having been omitted, forgotten, or rejected.
Her work has been shown in institutions like Museo Jumex (2021) Mexico City; M HKA Museum, Belgium (2019); ESPAC, Mexico (2019); XII Bienal FEMSA, Mexico (2018); Museo Amparo, Mexico (2018); CCI Fabrika, Russia (2017), La Tallera, Mexico (2015); ZKM Center for Art and Media, Germany (2015), MUAC, Mexico (2014), amongst others.
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