Sol Calero
Escuela del Sur, 2020
digital print
27.7 x 21 cm.
Edition of 10 + 2AP
Escuela del Sur, 2020
digital print
27.7 x 21 cm.
Edition of 10 + 2AP
Escuela del Sur, 2020
digital print
27.7 x 21 cm.
Edition of 10 + 2AP
Sol Calero, “Amazonas Shopping Center”, 2017. Installation view at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum for Gegenwart, Berlin, 2017. Photo: the artist & Laura Bartlett Gallery. Copyright: Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Jan Windszus
Sol Calero (b. 1982, Caracas, Venezuela) is Berlin-based artist who is best known for her site-specific installations of Latin-American interiors. She looks at how Latin American cultures are perceived and exported, her work confronts the spectator with the prism of exoticism inherent to the imagery and narratives of “otherness”.
Her patterns, florals and fruit shape lend a festive outward appearance to her installations, however Calero interrogates the production of stereotypical iconography with a singular and consistent presentation of abstracted tropicalism.
In 2017 she was nominated for the Preis der Nationalgalerie and won the Audience Award. Recent exhibitions include Tate, Liverpool; Villa Arson, Nice; MO.CO, Montpellier; Extra City, Antwerp; Museum van Boijmans Beunigen, Rotterdam; Düsseldorf Kunstverein; Kunsthalle Lisbon, Lisbon; Folkestone Triennial.