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ChertLüdde

Juan Antonio Olivares: Transference

17. September – 30. Oktober 2021

ChertLüdde is honored to present the first exhibition in the gallery context of Juan Antonio Olivares, born in 1988 in Puerto Rico to Colombian/Chilean parents, and currently based in New York.

The artist’s first solo exhibition in the gallery space after an initial presentation at Bungalow, Transference revolves around moments of joy, exhilaration, meditation, visions, or hallucination– probing the nature of social connection and intimate exchange, and, as the title suggests, projections of private ideas unto others. An ode to neurologist Oliver Sacks’ 1968 study of institutionalized patients in catatonic states, who were miraculously revived by the administration of L-dopa, the audio-visual installation links out of body experiences such as partying with acts of physical awakening.

The new videos will be presented through special holograms, a technology that embodies the holistic nature of storytelling.

Olivares works in digital animation, video installation, sound sculpture, and drawing to create psychologically charged environments that merge nature and technology. Mining the subconscious impulses that reflect our deeply embedded fears and desires, Olivares abstracts them through digital interfaces. His work explores humanity through constantly evolving forms of image-making, connecting viewers beyond an immediate time and place.