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Sofía Salazar Rosales

Sofía Salazar Rosales

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Sofía Salazar Rosales, «Imagínate vivir en Suiza y perderte esto», exhibition view, 2025. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin.
Sofía Salazar Rosales, «Imagínate vivir en Suiza y perderte esto», exhibition view, 2025. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin.
«Imagínate vivir en Suiza y perderte esto»
Sofía Salazar Rosales, When the axial skeleton decides to speak & We are contextual and sentimental, 2025. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin.
Sofía Salazar Rosales, When the axial skeleton decides to speak & We are contextual and sentimental, 2025. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin.
Sofía Salazar Rosales, When the axial skeleton decides to speak & We are contextual and sentimental, detail, 2025. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin.
Sofía Salazar Rosales, When the axial skeleton decides to speak & We are contextual and sentimental, detail, 2025. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin.
Sofía Salazar Rosales, «Imagínate vivir en Suiza y perderte esto», exhibition view, 2025. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin.
Sofía Salazar Rosales, «Imagínate vivir en Suiza y perderte esto», exhibition view, 2025. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin.
Sofía Salazar Rosales, Miedo al otro, detail, 2025. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin.
Sofía Salazar Rosales, Miedo al otro, detail, 2025. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin.
Sofía Salazar Rosales, «Imagínate vivir en Suiza y perderte esto», exhibition view, 2025. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin.
Sofía Salazar Rosales, «Imagínate vivir en Suiza y perderte esto», exhibition view, 2025. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin.
Sofía Salazar Rosales, «Imagínate vivir en Suiza y perderte esto», exhibition view, in the front: When the axial skeleton decides to speak, 2024. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist and ChertLüdde.
Sofía Salazar Rosales, «Imagínate vivir en Suiza y perderte esto», exhibition view, in the front: When the axial skeleton decides to speak, 2024. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist and ChertLüdde.
Sofía Salazar Rosales, When the axial skeleton decides to speak, detail, 2024. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin.
Sofía Salazar Rosales, When the axial skeleton decides to speak, detail, 2024. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin.
Sofía Salazar Rosales, No sé si fue la impaciencia de tanto esperar tu llegada, detail, 2025. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin.
Sofía Salazar Rosales, No sé si fue la impaciencia de tanto esperar tu llegada, detail, 2025. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin.
Sofía Salazar Rosales, «Imagínate vivir en Suiza y perderte esto», exhibition view, 2025. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin.
Sofía Salazar Rosales, «Imagínate vivir en Suiza y perderte esto», exhibition view, 2025. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin.
Sofía Salazar Rosales, They asked to stay, 2025. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin.
Sofía Salazar Rosales, They asked to stay, 2025. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin.
Sofía Salazar Rosales, Escuchando sin tener que traducir más que en formas, 2025. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin.
Sofía Salazar Rosales, Escuchando sin tener que traducir más que en formas, 2025. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin.
Sofía Salazar Rosales' (*1999 in Quito/EC, lives in Amsterdam/NL) material poetics will be showcased for the first time in a Swiss institution. The title, «Imagínate vivir en Suiza y perderte esto» (span. Imagine living in Switzerland and missing out on this), references a popular Latin American meme that humourously contrasts Switzerland – often seen as a very orderly country – with chaotic events happening in everyday life in Latin America. While the Ecuadorian artist works with a diverse range of materials – including glass beads, paraffin, epoxy, bronze powder, polyester resin, fiberglass, vinyl glue, plant seeds, construction paper, copper, concrete, pigments, oak wood, iron filings, plaster, cotton wool, gauze, and glass aggregate, to name just a few – she foregrounds crafts as a form of aesthetic resistance. Her sculptures and installations are charged with political and sociological meaning, questioning notions of productivity and value. Her works meet the artistic approach of Majd Abdel Hamid (*1988 in Damascus/SY, lives in Paris/FR and Beirut/LB) in a double exhibition. Both artists share a poetic focus on themes of identity, time, fragility, and materiality. The exhibitions by Majd Abdel Hamid «Resonances» and Sofía Salazar Rosales «Imagínate vivir en Suiza y perderte esto» are supported by Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung.

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