Title: Gabriel Chaile
Description: In the works of Gabriel Chaile (Tucumán, 1985) there is a critical-poetical intersection between anthropology, the sacred and its rituals, the political, and the pre-Columbian communities of South America, interpreted artistically and with certain eccentricity and sense of humor. In his work  Patriciaʺ (2017) a sculpture made with adobe, iron, bricks and eggs (size 320 x 150 x 210 cm) specially commissioned for his first solo exhibition at the Moderno, he has combined a clay oven with a pre-Columbian devotional figure, made scaffolding into a place to sleep and has converted builderœs working notes into a written language. The syncretism in these works becomes more than the sum of its parts: it is a means of expressing the tensions and strategies of subsistence communities marginalized by the greater economy. In this project, his gaze portrays the versatility of those forced to adapt to survive.
Subjects: Interviews, Exhibitions, Artists, Biography, Sculpture, Terra-cotta sculpture
Places: Argentina
People: Gabriel Chaile (1985-)
Time periods: 21st century