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BARRO / Chaile at Art Basel Miami Beach

In the works of Gabriel Chaile there is a critical-poetical intersection between anthropology, the sacred and its rituals, the political, and pre-Columbian communities of South America, interpreted artistically and with certain eccentricity and sense of humor. Chaile carries out his anthropological and visual research beginning from two key concepts that are present all across the body of his work. These are the Engineering of need, consisting on creating objects and structures from art that collaborate in improving the conditions of a certain borderline situation; and the Genealogy of shape, which implies acknowledging that every object in its historical repetition provides a story to tell, that is recovered and updated in relation to the new context. The artist uses both axioms to make sculptures, paintings, and build big scale installations that allow several communities overshadowed by history and power structures to gain visibility and have a voice. Chaile acts like a visual archeologist: he studies his surrounding context, deconstructs it in new morphologies, charges it with new meaning and throws it into the world in the form of objects and images inviting to reflect upon the relation between each other. Some of his latest projects are Mamá Luchona (Curators: Margot Norton, Allen and Lola Goldring, Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum Triennial, New York, 2021), Luchona (Curator: Chus Martínez y Filipa Ramos. Pés de Barro, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, 2021), Me hablan de oscuridad pero yo estoy encandilado (Barro, Nueva York, 2021; Melides Art, Melides, 2021; HENI Artists Agency, London, 2020), Renacimiento (Curator: Zoe Lukov; Faena Festival, Miami Beach, 2019), Esta canción ya tuvo aplausos (ChertLüdde, Berlín, 2019), Genealogía de la forma (Barro, Buenos Aires, 2019), Diego, Retrato de Diego Núñez (Art Basel Cities, Buenos Aires, 2018), Cosas que ojo no vio (Curator: Paula Carella; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de La Boca, Buenos Aires, 2018), Sonia (El ondulatorio, La Rioja, 2018), Proto, una película de Gabriel Chaile (Galería Ruby, Buenos Aires, 2017), Patricia (Curator; Laura Hakel; Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, 2017), No es mi culpa si viene del río (Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, 2015), among others. He lives and works in Lisbon.