GABRIELLA TORRES-FERRER – WE ARE ALL UNDER THE SAME SKY – PRISKA PASQUER VIRTUAL GALLERY
May 14, 2021 – June 13, 2021
GABRIELLA TORRES-FERRER
Gabriella Torres-Ferrers Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den gesellschaftlichen Transformationen, die die Entwicklung moderner Kybernetik mit sich bringt. Xies Arbeit richtet den Blick auf unsere digitale Realität und will verstehen, wie diese Natur neu definiert.
Gabriella Torres-Ferrer hat online und offline auf der The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale in São Paulo, Mexiko-Stadt, San Juan und Santo Domingo ausgestellt; A.I.R. feminist collective, New York; Phillip Martin, Los Angeles; Curro, Guadalajara; Gianni Manhattan, Wien; Embajada, San Juan. Xier nahm teil an der Whitney Biennale 2017, Occupy Museums, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York/USA und stellte im Museo del Barrio, New York/USA aus.
Gabriella Torres-Ferrer war Stipendiat*in am Beta-Local, San Juan/Puerto Rico und erhielt für xies Arbeit die Auszeichnung als Gastkünstler*in am CERN Collide, Genf/Schweiz. Xier ist 2020-2021 Empfänger*in des Artist-in-Residence-Stipendiums der Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart und erhielt als Gastkünstler*in eine Ehrenerwähnung am CERN Collide, Genf, Schweiz.
GABRIELLA TORRES-FERRER
Gabriella Torres-Ferrer considers the implications of existence within networked globalized life and explores their interest in the societal transformations of modern cybernetics. In essence, their works examine how our digital reality redefines nature.
Gabriella Torres-Ferrers has exhibited at The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale online and offline in São Paulo, Mexico City, San Juan and Santo Domingo; A.I.R. feminist collective, New York; Phillip Martin, Los Angeles; Curro, Guadalajara; Gianni Manhattan, Vienna; Embajada, San Juan. They have participated with Occupy Museums Debtfair at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Museo del Barrio, New York.
Gabriella Torres-Ferrers is a former resident of Beta Local’s La Práctica fellowship in San Juan. They are a 2020-2021 recipient of the Akademie Schloss Solitude Artist-in-Residence fellowship in Stuttgart and received an honorary mention as a guest artist at CERN Collide, Geneve, Switzerland.
Gabriella Torres-Ferrer
Born 1987 in Arecibo, Puerto Rico
BA architecture, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2012.
Selected Exhibitions
2021 We Are All Under the Same Sky on-offline solo exhibition curated by Mara Johanna Kölmel at Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Germany
2021 Hardware Almost Feels Real online exhibition as part of KI-Camp 2021, curated by The Real Office.
2020 NADA Miami Embajada, Online viewing room.
2020 9:16 on/offline exhibition curated by Nmenos1, Bogotá, Colombia.
2020 Future-framed Works online exhibition @unrequitedleisure.com.
2020 ART FWRD: Access for All? curated by Manique Hendricks at VondelCS, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Cancelled due to COVID-19)
2020 1-31 @collecteurs curated by Adam Carr.
2020 Material Art Fair Embajada, Mexico City, Mexico.
2020 ARCO Madrid Embajada, Madrid, Spain.
2019 The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale with online-offline group shows in Brazil, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.
2019 MECA International Art Fair Embajada, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2019 Futuro Modular curated by Christopher Rivera at Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, New York.
2019 INDEX’19 International Performance Festival, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana.
2019 Stage of Maneuvers with Alia Farid, Claire Fontaine, Georgia Sagri, curated by Anna Goetz at Gianni Manhattan, Vienna, Austria.
2019 XYXX010101000 group show curated by Dorotheé Dupuis at Curro, Guadalajara, Mexico.
2019 This Synthetic Moment (Replicant) group show at Philip Martin, Los Angeles, California.
2019 The Scalability Project: For Information group show at A.I.R. cooperative feminist art collective, New York, New York.
2019 Material Art Fair Embajada, Mexico City, Mexico.
2018 FUF: Symbolic Art for a Symbolic Country solo show at Embajada, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2018 MECA International Art Fair Embajada, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2018 PM (Post-María) at Embajada, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2017 El tan aclamado progreso, IS, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2017 Onlineum, @The Wrong – New Digital Art Biennale, World Wide Web.
2017 Curating Spam Pavillion @The Wrong – New Digital Art Biennale, World Wide Web.
2017 Debtfair, Puerto Rico Bundle, Museo del Barrio, New York.
2017 Debtfair, a project of Occupy Museums, Whitney Biennial, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
2014 Caribbean: Together Apart, Imago Mundi, Fundación Luciano Benetton, Venice, Italy.
2014 Santurce es ley, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2013 FAD 3, National Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2013/2015 Archizines™, Dublin, Columbus, Melbourne, Sydney, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Weil am Rhein, Venice, Lisboa, Chicago, Istanbul, Michigan, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Guadalajara, Beijing, Zurich, Bergen, Houston, Lausanne, Moscú, New York.
2009 RUS San Juan, Colectivo Basurama (España) en el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico.
Fellowships, residencies and awards
2020 Akademie Schloss Solitude international Artist-in-Residence fellowship.
2019/20 Guest artist, honorary mention at CERN Collide, Geneve, Switzerland.
2012 La Practica, Beta Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Press
2020 Nashville Scene An Outstanding Exhibition of Video Art Arrives Right on Time
2020 Art Viewer Futuro Modular at Rachel Uffner
2019 Terremoto Magazine Marginalia #55 feature
2019 Parnass Art Magazine Stage of Maneuvers curated by Anna Goetz in Gianni Manhattan, Vienna
2019 Gallery Talk Vienna Absorbing atmosphere: Anna Goetz on performative encounters
2019 El Informador Galería Curro reflexiona en torno al México contemporáneo
2018 Pazmaker Nº 14 by Adriana Lara, Mining Contest: Gabriella Torres-Ferrer / Jodi.org
2018 Terremoto Magazine FUF: Symbolic Art for a Symbolic Country
2018 Vulture NY Magazine With the MECA Art Fair, San Juan’s Art Community Rises Again
2018 The Art Newspaper The young art fair re-opened in a new San Juan venue after Hurricane Maria damage
2018 Puerto Rico Art News “FUF” exposición individual de Gabriella Torres Ferrer en Embajada, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2018 Terremoto Magazine “PM” (Post-María) curated by Christopher Rivera, Embajada, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2018 Art News “PM” at Embajada, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2017 Curating Spam Pavilion, artist profile, project profile
2018 Onlineum “Exhibition: Federal Assistance Disaster Relief Emergency Management Magic 8 Ball (Puerto Rico)”
2018 El Museo del Barrio, NY “Occupy Museums: Debtfair On View July 19 – November 5, 2017”
2018 Art News PR “Puerto Rico Bundle: 10 works by 10 Puerto Rican Artists at Whitney Biennial”
2018 Periódico el Vocero “10 Boricuas en la Bienal del Whitney”
2018 Frames and Stretchers “Puerto Rican Artists Explore Debt at the Whitney Biennial”
2018 Mousse Magazine “Whitney Biennial 2017 Review”
2015 Art Elsewhere “Various Artists at El Local”
2013 Wiindex™ Academia Edition in Archizines
2013 Imago Mundi, Caribbean: Together Apart Fundación Luciano Benetton, Google Arts and Culture
Workshops, talks and lectures
2020 Round table talk with Toni Navarro, Clara Bascuñana and Gabriella Torres-Ferrer on self-representation in the digital era: beyond binaries supported by @usergender and @proyectogalaxxia, Madrid, Spain.
2020 Conversation with Dorothée Dupuis, Wendy Cabrera Rubio, Gabriella Torres-Ferrer and Lourdes Martínez on resistance strategies in art and their practices in PAOS GDL residences and artistic training program, Guadalajara, Mexico.
2020 MeetingsPro LOOP Barcelona professional artists closed-door debates, Barcelona, España.
2017 Creation & Manipulation of the Digital Image, Puerto Rico Science, Technology, and Research Trust. —— Making and Reutilization Lecture, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico.
2014 Material Degrowth Workshop, International School of Design and Architecture, University of el Turabo, Puerto Rico.
2013 Publications Workshop, La Práctica – Beta-Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico.