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Paolo Salvador<\/p>\n

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Installation View of ‘Memoria’<\/em><\/p>\n

Peres Projects is pleased to present Memoria, Paolo Salvador\u2019s (b. 1990 in Lima, PE) fifth solo exhibition with the gallery and his third at the Berlin space. Paolo Salvador\u2019s new works tell stories of circulation, transformation, and convergence. His expansive landscapes, populated with voyagers and a diverse bestiary, embark the viewer on a journey that extends far beyond any individual\u2019s orientation in time and space. Although informed by the artist\u2019s own biographical trajectory, it embraces various timescales and geographies. In several instances throughout the exhibition, Salvador\u2019s characteristic metaphysical backgrounds, in which overlapping planes of color create multiple horizons suggestive of the multiple dimensions of existence, develop into seascapes. Reminiscent of the coastline of his hometown of Lima, they also gesture to mythological odysseys, and historical and contemporary narratives of migration.<\/p>\n

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Otra ma\u00f1ana de Abril, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n

Themes of displacement and belonging are salient in Migratio (all works 2024), in which a human figure, riding a feline form, is captured in the act of planting a sinewy branch in the ground; a gesture that encapsulates the decisive and conclusive moment of a quest for a place to put down roots. The scene evokes a radicant\u2014a vegetal organism that grows roots from the stem as it progresses across space. Introduced into contemporary art criticism by curator and art critic Nicolas Bourriaud, the radicant metaphor finds echoes in Salvador\u2019s practice itself. Indeed, it describes artistic practices that take roots in heterogenous contexts and operate through nomadic forms and processes of transfer, translation, and hybridization. Carving singular pathways through time and space, Salvador\u2019s paintings dissolve linear and flat perspectives in favor of multilayered and multidirectional ones, rendered by his virtuosic use of colors, lines, and planes. Inspired by disparate sources such as Andean cosmology and culture and the canon of Western art, the works speak simultaneously to Salvador\u2019s diasporic experience, the tangling of cultures that make up present-day Peru, and the arts made in today\u2019s global context.<\/p>\n

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Pacifico, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n

From one body of work to another, Salvador navigates his deliberately reduced yet always morphing visual lexicon in a cyclical way. Throughout Memoria, he revisits motifs found in works dating back a few years, including fish and bulls. While referencing Indigenous myths, traditions, and craftsmanship, Salvador infuses each motif with new meanings, thus weaving polysemous narratives ripe with both personal and universal resonances. Through appropriation and reformulation, Salvador\u2019s practice resonates with syncretic processes that have shaped Peru\u2019s culture since the Spanish presence in the region. Moreover, it conveys the artist\u2019s long-standing reflection on the way certain motifs circulate across time and geography. Indeed, besides reflecting Salvador\u2019s heritage, this approach is ingrained in an epistemological interest in tracing the origins of things\u2014be they motifs, symbols, or traditions\u2014and identifying convergence points where they fuse and give rise to new ideas and forms.<\/p>\n

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Descanso Azul, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n

Salvador\u2019s depictions of figures in metamorphosis or transition embody his meditation on fleeting states of consciousness. His lush brushwork and dreamlike palettes express rhythms and flows that conjure the continuous development of ecological, social, and cultural systems. Balanced and harmonious, the works represent forms of mutualism between all living beings. Besides Salvador\u2019s distinctive interspecies pairings, works such as Otra ma\u00f1ana de Abril, Travesar, and Arcilla feature human figures in tandem, engaged in various activities, representing labor, journeying, or mutual care, and symbolizing connectedness and companionship. Ultimately, Memoria maps interconnected paths along which memory appears as a profound understanding of the past essential for navigating the present.<\/p>\n

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Persistir, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n

This is Paolo Salvador\u2019s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery and his third at the Berlin space. His recent solo exhibitions include Misterios inscritos en tela, Peres Projects, Seoul (2023); Silencios entre el mar, los r\u00edos y monta\u00f1as, Goodman Gallery, London (2023); Los \u00faltimos d\u00edas del gato de fuego, Peres Projects, Milan (2022); Ensue\u00f1os en el amanecer, Ilwoo Space, Seoul (2021); Nuevas Mitologias, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad (2021); and Resonancias on\u00edricas, Peres Projects, Berlin (2021). He has participated in a number of group exhibitions including The New, New, Peres Projects, Seoul (2023); Futurismo, Mendes Wood DM, S\u00e3o Paulo (2022); Heroic Bodies, the Rudolph Tegners Museum, Dronningm\u00f8lle (2022); Les Yeux Clos, Perrotin, Paris (2021); and The Nomenclature of Colours, Slade Research Centre, London (2019).<\/p>\n

Peres Projects
\nKarl-Marx-Allee 82, Berlin, Germany
\n+49 30 275 950770<\/p>\n

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