Sol Calero, a Berlin-based, Caracas-born artist, creates work that explores themes of representation and identity, often through immersive environments filled with colourful patterns and textiles. Embracing a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, found objects, textiles, video, sound, and site-specific installations, Calero’s conceptual approach is underscored by weighty questions surrounding hospitality and belonging. At the Biennale Arte, the artist has approached the invitation to design a site-specific installation in the Giardini della Biennale with her signature sensitivity. Here, the concept of the national pavilion is cheerfully reinvented as an environment formed of a kaleidoscope of shapes and colours, with geometrically painted walls, sloping roofs, monochromatic columns and fences, and curving terraces. Calero’s project reflects her continuing interest in how objects, architectural forms, and interiors signify cultural preconceptions and also articulate forms of self-exoticisation, as often seen in sites related to tourism.
This is the first time the work of Sol Calero is presented at Biennale Arte.
—Marko Ilić
