ARTISTS
Chris Rivas: 40 Days and 40 Nights
Monte Vista Projects is pleased to announce "40 Days and 40 Nights", a solo exhibition of works from artist Chris Rivas.
The title "40 Days and 40 Nights" is a phrase used by many groups to refer to a long amount of time. In this case it signifies the covid-19 pandemic and the quarantine that seems to have no end. As such, the exhibition examines the home as a space used to contemplate current social political issues and reflect on our constant desire to preserve dissipating cultures. As globalism and technology accelerate art consumption across our world鈥檚 borders, cultures are forced to adapt or die.
Influenced by the history of painting and cultural diaspora, Rivas explores what it means to feel connected to others across cultural aesthetics, physical space, and time. The works in the show collectively present remnants of a domestic space. Derived from multiple cultures, the works in the show explore the connection between exoticized objects and personal narrative. In the past what seemed voyeuristic has become the new norm. What stories will emerge from the covid-19 era, and who will have the privilege to tell them?
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Monte Vista Projects is pleased to announce "40 Days and 40 Nights", a solo exhibition of works from artist Chris Rivas.
The title "40 Days and 40 Nights" is a phrase used by many groups to refer to a long amount of time. In this case it signifies the covid-19 pandemic and the quarantine that seems to have no end. As such, the exhibition examines the home as a space used to contemplate current social political issues and reflect on our constant desire to preserve dissipating cultures. As globalism and technology accelerate art consumption across our world鈥檚 borders, cultures are forced to adapt or die.
Influenced by the history of painting and cultural diaspora, Rivas explores what it means to feel connected to others across cultural aesthetics, physical space, and time. The works in the show collectively present remnants of a domestic space. Derived from multiple cultures, the works in the show explore the connection between exoticized objects and personal narrative. In the past what seemed voyeuristic has become the new norm. What stories will emerge from the covid-19 era, and who will have the privilege to tell them?
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