"' Each sculpture is covered in black line drawings,' the artist explains. ' Within those lines, other hidden drawings emerge - like walking through a jungle, where you're present, yet not always visible.'"
"Together they form what the artist describes as 'a walk, a march, or a protest.'"
"' What struck me was the manner of protest: people standing quietly on sidewalks,' he recalls. ' Watching from the car, I felt a kind of alignment - not necessarily with the political opposition, but with the deeper message: a call for a more inclusive coexistence.'"
Gabriel Chaile presents Esto es América, o qual é o limite? at Marianne Boesky Gallery in Chelsea through October 18, 2025. The exhibition centers on five adobe sculptures that resemble bread ovens and animal figures, their surfaces densely covered with black line drawings revealing hidden images. The works are arranged as a procession, with a largest piece suggesting a lizard or bird mid-transformation and four oven-like volumes evoking domestic and anthropomorphic presences. Large photographic prints document a quiet protest witnessed in Montana, with intergenerational participants holding ambiguous signs. The combined sculptures, drawings, and photographs connect ancestral forms with contemporary political imagery.
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