Esperanza Mayobre

Trestle Gallery is proud to present We, too, have become ruins, a solo exhibition of the work of Esperanza Mayobre organized by Alex Paik. Mayobre's graphite transfer wall drawings, created by tracing photos of modular foam core models, function as ghostly monuments to the failures and excesses of her home cities of Caracas, Venezuela and New York... City. These empty cityscapes take on another reading as our relationships with cities have changed within the context of the global pandemic they have become sites emptied out of their vibrancy but at the same time sites for the potential for change and the largest global protests for social justice in decades. Mayobres gold grid drawings are meditations on the ongoing crisis in Venezuela as the cash-strapped government continues to quietly deforest the Amazon, causing irreversible ecological and financial harm to the local communities. Formally they are based on indigenous weaving practices and her childhood memories of watching weavers from the South of the Orinoco River. June 18 - July 24, 2021 In an effort to aid city-wide endeavors to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Trestle Gallery is open by appointment only. Please email us at gallery@trestlegallery.org Esperanza Mayobre in conversation with Natalia Viera Salgado, Assistant Curator of Visual Arts. Sadane Afif, Sobia Ahmad, Shiva Ahmadi, John Akomfrah, Sama Alshaibi, Mounira Al Solh, Kader Attia, Aziz + Cucher, Radcliffe Bailey, Rina Banerjee, Keren Benbenisty, Dawoud Bey, Jorge Méndez Blake, Phoebe Boswell, Andrea Bowers, Tania Bruguera, Margarita Cabrera, Yoan Capote, Enrique Chagoya, Gohar Dashti, Lois Dodd, Willie Doherty, Fidencio Fifield-Perez, Forensic Oceanography, Meschac Gaba, Cyprien Gaillard, Guillermo Galindo, John Gerrard, Mohamad Hafez, Manaf Halbouni, Mona Hatoum, Alfredo Jaar, Hayv Kahraman, Zoe Leonard, Glenn Ligon, Hew Locke, Teresa Margolles, Elisabeth Masé, Esperanza Mayobre, Richard Misrach, Fiamma Montezemolo, Richard Mosse, Yoshua Okón, Catherine Opie, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Driss Ouadahi, ...Read More