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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. His practice extends into editorial photography as well, including notable collaborations such as cover portraits for Flaunt magazine, among other international publications, further affirming his ability to merge emotional depth with striking visual clarity.

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IAN MORRISON, © IAN MORRISON, 2025

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 other international publications, Suhrie has also been awarded the Maybach Mentorship Program with David LaChapelle (2016) and named Photographer of the Year by Professional Photographer Magazine (2015). His work reminds us that beauty does not always shine — sometimes it simply breathes.

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

From Monterrey and now based in San Sebastián, Spain, 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.

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JACOBO PARRA, © JACOBO PARRA, 2025

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

Featured Artists

The selection of artists presented by Clavo Art Space brings together a diverse constellation of voices whose practices expand the possibilities of contemporary Latin American art. At the core of this presentation is Abel Adrián (Mexico), a fine artist, writer and director, whose work delves into the intimate tension between body and memory. His canvases operate as introspective landscapes—spaces where identity stretches, fractures, and recomposes itself through matter and colour.

Complementing this is the work of Fran DaMor (Mexico), who constructs interior landscapes from cedar wood, metal, obsidian, and mineral elements. His pieces pulse with spiritual energy and are deeply informed by Mexican artisanal traditions and processes of personal reconstruction.

Gabriela Silva (Mexico) contributes a rare small-format piece crafted with coffee grounds, where the material itself becomes archaeological. One of the last muralists trained within the lineage of Diego Rivera’s school, her practice is deeply rooted in muralism and traditional techniques. Through this heritage, her work bridges the ritual, the popular, and the primal, transforming matter into a narrative of memory and cultural continuity.

Tania Riera (Venezuela) introduce an expressive tension between the gestural and the geometric. Their works vibrate with the energy of movement and displacement, proposing a visual language that reflects both migration and the search for a place to belong.

The sculptural and printmaking practices in the selection further broaden the material dialogue. Alberto Estrada (Mexico) contributes Durmiente, a bronze and iron sculpture that captures a body suspended between sleep and awakening, and Eduardo Estrada (Mexico) embodies silence, weight, and stillness.

This panorama is enriched by the work of additional artists whose practices deepen the exhibition’s scope. Soria Conde (Mexico) explores intimacy through a delicate yet assertive visual language. Víctor Pastor (Spain) introduces an atmospheric composition that navigates memory and abstraction. Fabiane Campos (Mexico), an emerging neurodivergent artist, brings luminous spontaneity to color and gesture, transforming emotion into an authentic and vivid visual language. Jonathan Rosas (Mexico) expands the dialogue through his intuitive, materially driven painting practice. Caldrian Hergo (Mexico) contributes a graphic approach rooted in tension, movement, and primal symbolism. Within this constellation, Javier Guerrero (Mexico) presents a world shaped by surrealist-pop sensibilities, inhabited by dreamlike characters and hybrid beings.

Additional works on view include pieces by Luis Argudín, Héctor Vargas Salazar, Manuel Guillen, and Guillermo Clemente, among others.

Together, these artists shape a multifaceted panorama where matter, memory, and identity converge—each offering a distinct perspective while collectively asserting the richness and vitality of creation.

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.