Karla Kaplun, Máquina-teatro, 2024
Karla Kaplun, Máquina-teatro, 2024
Karla Kaplun, Máquina-teatro, 2024
Karla Kaplun
(Querétaro, México, 1993)
Uses media such as painting, drawing, installations and performance that embody her interest in colonial Mexico’s baroque period, adapting sacred and profane references to arrive at new narratives. In her work, she leverages syncretism to construct a visual vocabulary that evokes a theatrical feeling in compositions that blur the line between memory and fiction. She is a graduate from “La Esmeralda,” Mexico’s national painting, sculpture and engraving school. Recent solo exhibitions include Carmen, at High Art in Paris, 2023; Dressing chamber, from 2023 at Gaga, Art Basel Statements; La Misión, Gaga Los Angeles, 2022; and 2020’s La Compañía at Gaga in Mexico City. Ugly Painting at Nahmad Contemporary in New York, 2023; Creo en Dios, sólo que deletreo naturaleza at Lodos, Mexico City, 2021; 2020’s Sans Filet at Aoyama Meguro, in Tokyo and El mundo no es como nosotros, fue impuesto, intentamos transformarlo, from the same year and at Britta Rettberg in Munich, figured among the artist’s most notable recent collective exhibitions. In partnership with Wendy Cabrera Rubio, she co-curated Capital Capital at Querétaro’s Galería Libertad, in 2018; and in the following year she presented Campamiento para Jóvenes Naturalistas at the Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro. She received a Jóvenes Creadores grant from Mexico’s Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes in 2019.
Máquina-teatro, 2024
Installation
Metal structures, acrylic on cloth, and curtains
The structure of this theatrical device was inspired by items of play, especially merry-go-rounds and pop-up books. This theater machine seeks to open conversations around scenography as a mobile space capable of generating narratives, using landscapes and symbolic images to create the three potential scenes to accompany acting.
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