Artists: Cristine Brache, Alexandru Chira, Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Elliot Reed, Cédric Rivrain, and Frances Stark

anonymous gallery
Hosting Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris

for Condo CDMX

Fitzpatrick Gallery (Paris) and anonymous gallery (New York City, Mexico City) are pleased to announce a collaborative group exhibition organized on the occasion of Condo Mexico, and bringing together works by Cristine Brache, Alexandru Chira, Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Elliot Reed, Cédric Rivrain, and Frances Stark.

Not merely a personal journey but a political landscape, corporeal existence in the 21st century is marked by intersecting forces of power, privilege, and oppression. Through different mediums and techniques, the artists shared preoccupation with the political role of bodily self-hood, reminding us to relate to our own bodies as entities of societal significance, history, and legacy. By extension, the exhibition means to reflect on the ties between the contexts of art and advocacy, addressing ever-present topics such as bodily liberation, spiritual autonomy, and questions around the notion of authorship.

Cristine Brache (b. 1984, Miami), explores themes of cultural erasure, womanhood, and power dynamics through her installation art and poetry. Her work delves into personal and familial narratives, inviting reflection on identity and the human experience.

Alexandru Chira (b. 1947, Tauseni) is known for his conceptual approach to sculpture, painting, and installation art. His work engages with themes of hyperbolic meaning, symbolism, and transcendence.

Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaco Kuriki-Olivo) (b. 1989) is a conceptual, performance and installation artist. Her work often draws on the emotional resonance of found objects and shared experiences to explore existential themes like love, intimacy, mortality, power relations and states of being. Until 2018 her works were created anonymously – the name Puppies Puppies revealed neither gender or origin, nor whether a group or just a single individual was behind the pseudonym. Stepping away from this unattributed artistic persona became central to of a series of works beginning in 2018 that coincided with the transitioning of the artist to Jade Kuriki Olivo. In the years since, her activist practice and commitment to the rights of BIPOC transgender, gender non conforming, two spirit + minorities has increasingly become a focal point in her artistic work. In recent years, Kuriki Olivo has used exhibition invitations to draw attention to issues surrounding this community, as well as inviting artists to exhibit either alongside her or in her place.

Elliot Reed (b. 1992,) is an artist working in performance, sculpture, and video. Their art starts from the body, making a choreographic language through objects, installation, and sound. Using an intra-media approach, Elliot’s projects aim to capture the idiosyncrasies of live performance through physical means. Reed is the founder, director, and sole employee of Elliot Reed Laboratories, a production office located inside the artist’s body.

Cédric Rivrain’s (b. 1977, Limoges) work operates with a subtle allure, almost like a dance of seduction. It draws attention much like the fleeting glance exchanged on a dimly lit street, in the obscurity of an underground room at night, or on a bustling subway platform. Embody an uncommon system of understanding, his paintings shed light on the intricacies of human connection and reveal what constitutes the other.

Frances Stark (b. 1967, Huntington Beach) is an interdisciplinary artist and writer, whose work centers on the use and meaning of language, and the translation of this process into the creative act. She often works with carbon paper to hand-trace letters, words, and sentences from classic works by Emily Dickinson, Goethe, Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, and others to explore the voices and interior states of writers. She uses these hand-traced words, often in repetition, as visual motifs in drawings and mixed media works that reference a subject, mood, or another discipline such as music, architecture, or philosophy.

Preview days, Thursday 11 and Friday 12 April, 12–6pm
Open Wednesday–Friday, 12–6pm,
Saturday 12–4pm


anonymous gallery
C. Gobernador Ignacio Esteva 44,
San Miguel Chapultepec I Secc,
Miguel Hidalgo, 11850 Ciudad de México
Hosting Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:  

Cristine Brache , Puppies Puppies (Jade Guarano Kuriki-Olivo) , Alexandru Chira , Elliot Reed , Cédric Rivrain , Frances Stark .