Colectivo Toronto and Club Cultural Matienzo
presents at:
Gallery 1313
1313 Queen St. West, Toronto
OPENING – THURSDAY – OCTOBER 10Th – 6:30pm
exhibition from Thursday, October 10th to Sunday 20th, 2019
hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 1:00pm to 6:00pm
Free Event
Notas y Huellas / notes and traces
by Leticia Obeid
presented by our international guest curator Laura Preger
Sponsor by the General Consulate of Argentina in Toronto
Parallel Lines / lineas paralelas
by Rita Camacho Lomeli
Leticia Obeid is an artist who works on territories where writing and visual arts combine in a pleasant way. Her works move between different intensities and develop alternately in infinite aspects where reading, writing and drawing merge kindly to reach a result of a personal narrative.
Leticia’s works befall with certain secrecy, but always outlining an open fold to the intimacy that causes the viewer to hypnotize themselves. Leticia has the virtue of managing between writing and drawing; and between the drawing and the moving image, thereby opening a tactile perception; between the intellectual and the hedonic.
Her works have the fullness of balancing amidst the figurative and the abstract, amidst the meticulous of fiction and the subjectivity of creativity, thus allowing imaginary games between the artistic and the conceptual.
Rita Camacho Lomeli is an artist who base her work between the movement of everyday life and human existence as a relative point of convergence. Her works maintain a balance amidst the frontiers of interventions and personal reflections. While her works seem simple in ways, internally develop an intense process between the event and the result.
Rita maintains a presence of connectivity so ingrained in today’s world that her works are never ephemeral since they are intrinsically related to the search and socio-personal questioning in the framework of a contemporary world.
Her works show the precarious relationship between the human and the severe objectivity of reality, her works does not pursue a simple aesthetic objective, but tries to show a fact that remains beyond its constitutive gaze and where the images themselves constitute history.
Colectivo Toronto is dedicated to the development and presentation of contemporary art. We work in collaboration with other collectives, artist-run centres, galleries, art organizations and festivals. We are diverse in content, culture and activities.
http://www.colectivotoronto.ca
Club Cultural Matienzo is and artist-run-centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina; a highly creative space always buzzing with local, well-organized activities like concerts, theatre plays, dance performances, art exhibitions, poetry readings, movie screenings and arts courses.
http://www.ccmatienzo.com.ar
Leticia Obeid
Lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied arts at the School of Arts at the National University of Córdoba (UNC), and received a scholarship from the Antorchas Foundation. She has been participating in difference arts residencies such as the Atlantic Center for the Arts; Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, and Casa Vecina, Mexico. Her work has been shown in exhibitions in Argentina and internationally: “Doubles” at MUAC in Mexico City, “The Right to the City” at Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, “The Life of Others” at Akbank Art Center in Istanbul and “Economía Picasso” at Museo Picasso in Barcelona. She was at the Latin American Pavilion at the 54th Biennale di Venezia and at the 6th Bienal del Mercosur in Porto Alegre. She has published the novels like “Frente, perfil y llanura” and “Preparación para el amor”.
http://www.leticiaobeid.com
Rita Camacho Lomeli
Rita is an artist whose performance-based projects centre on ephemeral sculpture, artist’s books, video and curatorial projects. Her work explores “the gift” covering a wide range of temporal terrain stretching from the relationship between the accidentally miraculous and the here and now. She received and MFA from OCADU, her projects have been awarded from the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council. She has exhibited her work individually and collectively in Canada, Serbia and Mexico in galleries, festivals and on the streets.
http://www.ritacamacholomeli.com
Laura Preger
Laura is a Media and Sound Designer, currently she is doing a master’s degree in Sociology of Culture at the National University of San Martín in Argentina. During 2011 to 2018; she has been working as curator and programmer coordinator at the visual and new media hub at Club Cultural Matienzo. She also presented a weekly cycle of independent films from contemporary Argentinean and Latin American filmmakers.
Since 2017 she works as a Film Programmer Coordinator at Andrés Di Tella University. Laura has organized conferences, seminars and special exhibitions made by national and international artists, such as Lucrecia Martel, James Benning, João Moreira Salles, Marta Andreu, Andrés Denegri, Michael Temple and Catherine Grant.
Gallery 1313 is a not-for-profit, charitable artist-run centre located in the Parkdale neighbourhood of downtown Toronto. Gallery 1313 is equally an artist run centre exhibiting local, national and international contemporary art. The gallery’s four unique exhibition spaces house over 70 exhibitions and many cultural events each year. Gallery 1313 supports emerging artists with professional development and career building opportunities, offers members a welcoming space to connect with colleagues, develop their practice, and contribute to the operations of the gallery, and engages the public with contemporary art exhibitions and cultural events through community outreach.
http://g1313.org/
please do not hesitate to contact us:
http://www.colectivotoronto.ca
colectivotoronto@gmail.com
Colectivo Toronto is a member of
Media Arts Network of Ontario / Réseau des arts médiatiques de l’Ontario
http://www.mano-ramo.ca
We would like to acknowledge funding support from the
Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario
Media Arts Projects
http://www.arts.on.ca
*gallery 1313 is a wheelchair accessible space.
*colectivo toronto acknowledge this land on which we are gathered, as a traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca,the Haudenosaunee and the Mississauga of the Credit River for thousands of years