Sofia Berakha

Sofia Berakha questions the status of painting through its presence and incorporation of objects. By encouraging a dialogue between abstraction and figuration, Berakha develops a harmonious tension between these modes of paintings. The condition of painting as medium and the manipulation of materiality are central to the character of Berakha’s work. Through these processes the role of painting as information and its search for objecthood is evidenced.

Sofia Berakha (Buenos Aires, 1984) lives and works in Buenos Aires and Berlin. She studied in the Artists Program at Torcuato Di Tella University, Buenos Aires (2012) and in the Master of Arts in the class of Jutta Koether at Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg (2018). Recent solo exhibitions include: Tartán, Lodos, Mexico City (2022); Paintings Arranged, 3rd Floor, Berlin (2019); Autopartes, Aldo de Sousa Gallery, Buenos Aires (2018); Melodrama Panorama, Big Sur Gallery, Buenos Aires (2016). Recent group exhibitions include: Escape, Fantazia, Buenos Aires (2021); National prize of Painting, Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, Buenos Aires (2018); Rooms inside a room, Kiefholz 401, Berlin (2018); Back room, Galerie Frankfurt am Main, Berlin (2018); Kleingeld, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin (2017).

Berenice Olmedo

Berenice Olmedo mobilizes, through both sculptural and investigative work, the often unsettling implications of thinking about the relationship between human and nonhuman bodies as well as the myriad of objects surrounding them, both clinically and socially.

Titled MEKHANÉ, this set of sculptures reconfigures molded prosthetic and orthopedic objects for legs and torsos, endowing them with autonomy through the introduction of suspended bipedal joints. Through a gaze that is capable of detecting the tension between the anthropomorphic and the synthetic, her work sparks points of contact for deeper discussion of the marginalization of other bodily conditions, as well as the realities and temporalities revealed by the passage of body-minds, distinct from the models of dominant cultures.

*MEKHANÉ is currently being shown in the group show The Sunset Ensemble at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey in Mexico. For Paris Internationale, Berenice Olmedo is presenting two new sculptures that can be seen at our booth.

Berenice Olmedo (Mexico City, 1987) lives and works in Mexico City. Recent solo exhibitions include: Hic et Nunc, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2022); Eccéite, SIMIAN, Copenhagen (2021); CsO, haecceidad, Jan Kaps, Cologne (2020); Toraco-Lumbo [SKOLIÓPHYSIS], Lodos, Mexico City (2019); Anthroprothestic, Jan Kaps, Cologne (2018). Recent group exhibitions include: Wet Resistance, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund (2022); Vessels, David Zwirner, London (2022); The Sunset Ensemble, Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey, Monterrey (2022); CRIP*, Krannert Art Museum, Illinois (2021); Crip Time, MMK, Frankfurt (2021); The Prophetic Pictures, Galerie Crèvecoeur, Paris (2021); Ghosts & Bones, Stereo Gallery, Warsaw, (2021); Otrxs Mundxs, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2020).