Clapham Lights – Sol Calero Exhibition

voltaire

5:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Friday, November 27, 2015

Studio Voltaire, Nelson's Row

Late Night opening At Studio Volatire as part of the Clapham Lights Chrsistmas event

La Escuela del Sur is a major new commission by Venezuelan-born artist Sol Calero, and her largest exhibition to date. Stemming from her South American heritage and migration to Europe, Calero constructs social spaces that use sensory engagement as a democratic entry point for audiences to investigate socio-political themes of cultural representation and national identity.

Her playful installations and carefully selected palette conjure ‘tropical’ environments, which invite the audience to reconsider notions of creation, appropriation and cultural anthropophagy. Calero’s distinctive visual language is loaded with references based on imported ideas and categories. She adopts stereotypical imagery, such as exotic fruit and sensuous salsa dresses, which simultaneously represent and investigate how we conceive of a culturally homogenous Latin America.