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Clavo Art Space at Arte Capital 2025: A Dialogue of Presence

At the 2025 edition of Arte Capital, Clavo Art Space strengthens its position as an emerging platform devoted to elevating new voices in art from Mexico, USA, Latin America, and the diaspora. Its presentation unfolds as a curated journey where painting, sculpture, printmaking, and photography converse through a shared axis: the exploration of identity and the transformation of body, matter, and territory.

This year, the gallery unveils one of the most robust installations in the fair: a dedicated pavilion for contemporary photography featuring three artists whose visions have crossed borders — Ian Morrison, Garret Suhrie, and Jacobo Parra — each offering a unique relationship with light, time, and the emotional landscape of human experience.

The Photography Pavilion is the result of how thoughtful and passionate we are about art.

Ian Morrison: Portraiture as Emotional Threshold

Morrison’s presence forms the introspective core of the pavilion. His black-and-white portraiture uncovers the moment in which something profoundly human emerges from shadow — a space of vulnerability, tension, and memory. Stripped of artifice, his images confront the viewer with the density of suspended time, where silence becomes a form of revelation.

Garret Suhrie: Landscapes Breathing Between Shadow and Dawn

Suhrie transforms the night into a laboratory of contemplation. Through long exposures and a near-ritual patience, he captures landscapes that appear suspended outside of time. A former mentee of David LaChapelle and an artist recognized by Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic, and international publications, Suhrie reminds us that beauty does not always shine — sometimes it simply breathes.

Jacobo Parra: Memory, Fiction, and What Lies Behind the Instant

From Monterrey, Parra navigates the intersection of the poetic and the documentary. Influenced by Mexican visual culture and contemporary introspection, his photographs reveal what lives in the margins of perception: subtle gestures, symbols emerging from the environment, and portraits suspended between identity and desire.

Beyond the photography pavilion, Clavo Art Space presents a diverse group of artists from Mexico, Venezuela, Honduras, Spain, and the United States. Each creator offers a distinct visual language, yet all share an exploration of how we inhabit the contemporary world.

Clavo’s Featured Artists

Abel Adrián (Mexico)
Painter and writer whose work examines the tension between body and memory. His canvases operate as introspective territories where identity expands, fragments, and reconstructs itself.

Ana Teresa Machado (Venezuela)
Explores the organic and metamorphic through earthen textures and compositions that evoke petrified wings, thresholds, and states of transformation.

Gabriela Silva (Mexico)
A muralist from Coyoacán, she presents an intimate small-format piece made with coffee grounds, where matter becomes almost archaeological. Her practice connects the popular, the ritual, and the primal.

Monuna (Venezuela)
Her work oscillates between the gestural and the geometric, evoking movement, migration, and the search for home.

Javier Guerrero (Mexico)
From a surrealist-pop aesthetic, his characters — magicians, maidens, fantastical creatures — inhabit hybrid worlds where fantasy becomes a mirror of daily life.

Sculpture and Printmaking: The Body as Living Material

Caldrian Hergo (Mexico)
Presents Escorpión, a drypoint on acrylic where gesture becomes vibration, motion, and edge. His work navigates the tension between the human and the animal, between form and its shadow.

Alberto Estrada (Mexico)
With Durmiente, a bronze and iron sculpture, he creates a figure suspended between sleep and awakening, exploring the silent presence of a resting body.

Fran DaMor
Working with cedar wood, metal, obsidian, and minerals, DaMor constructs interior landscapes charged with spiritual energy, inspired by Mexican traditions and processes of personal reconstruction.

The variety of techniques and styles: A Map of Identities in Motion

Clavo Art Space’s participation in Arte Capital 2025 is not merely a group presentation — it is a declaration of intent. The project gathers geographies, generations, and artistic languages to form a map of contemporary Latin American sensibility.

Among nocturnal lightscapes, transforming bodies, migratory memories, meditative sculptures, and gestural paintings, Clavo Art Space weaves a space where art is not just represented, but manifested:
as presence, as inquiry, as possibility.