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Press Contacts:
Shirin Makaremi, Director
Incline Gallery
shirinm28@gmail.com
Lian Ladia, Curator
415-756-9759
lian@plantingrice.com
the curved body of a pixel: Kimberley Acebo Arteche
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 26, 2019, 3-6pm
Exhibition Dates: October 26- November 24, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Emerging visual artist Kimberley Acebo Arteche will be having her first solo exhibition, titled “the curved body of a pixel,” at Incline Gallery in San Francisco’s Mission District. The show is set to open on Saturday, October 26, 2019, with an artists reception from 3-6pm.
The exhibition focuses on globalism and the way that technology has enabled our social bodies to function through the fusion of imaginary and cultural wired channels. As a second generation Pinay growing up in D.C., Arteche realized that her relationship with her heritage has always been mediated by the Internet. Through the lens of diaspora, Arteche’s work revolves around epistemology, acting as an interlocutor between traditional research, oral history, and Internet searches. She works in photography, installation, and social practice.
“the curved body of a pixel” represents a breakout moment in Arteche’s young career and offers an initial retrospective of her body of work up to the present. Incorporating prints, textiles, lightboxes, and sculptural/architectural installation, she explores themes of family, home, migration, and globalization. Her work often invokes feelings of alienation and disembodiment, causing the viewer to question what is seen and unseen; present and absent.
With its winding ramps, high ceiling, and dim lighting, Incline Gallery (https://inclinegallerysf.com) is the perfect site to host Arteche’s first solo show, lending curves, pockets, heights to an almost spectral quality. Incline Gallery is an alternative art space that prides itself in creating opportunities for emerging as well as established artists to exhibit in a non-cube format that challenges and encourages experimentation in exhibition design.
About the Artist:
Kimberley Acebo Arteche is a San Francisco-based educator, cultural worker, and interdisciplinary artist. Her work explores the hybrid cultures formed by technology, movements of immigrants in America, and the way movements through space and spaces has been affected by these two. Arteche is committed to collaboratively creating decolonial practices within arts institutions, while creating visibility and providing resources for emerging Asian Pacific American and BIPOC Artists.
She received an MFA from the San Francisco State University in 2016 as the School of Art's Distinguished Graduate. She was awarded the Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award in 2014, showcased in Root Division's 2015 MFA Now, and featured at Kearny Street Workshop's 2015 annual exhibition, APAture. She currently teaches Photography at the School of Art Department of the San Francisco State University.
Kimberley Acebo Arteche
https://www.kimacebo.art
@kimbr
“the curved body of a pixel” opens on October 26, 2019 and runs through November 24, 2019. There will be an artists reception on Saturday, October 26 from 3-6pm. Gallery viewing hours will be on Saturdays and Sundays from 3-6pm, or by appointment. For more information, contact Shirin Makaremi of Incline Gallery at shirinm28@gmail.com.
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CALENDAR EDITORS
WHAT: “the curved body of a pixel” art exhibition
WHO: Kimberley Acebo Arteche
WHEN: October 26–November 24, 2019
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 26, 3-6pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays & Sundays, 1-5pm or by appointment
WHERE: Incline Gallery, 766 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
IMAGES
Hi-res images on this link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uKHf6m-sCDE7xp0N9szwLlmdptKCXp8Q
Event Flyer
Kim Arteche, Bodyless, 2018. Digital Print, approx 44 x 66 inches.
The “Bodyless” photographs and body of work takes a look unseen, physical and emotional labor of Filipina immigrants being present as labor but not being seen and validated as humans outside of their autonomous spaces.