Duran Contemporary: Ser y Estar

Ser y Estar

March 6-29, 2025

Opening: March 6, 2025. 5-8pm

Duran Contemporain

Duran Contemporain is pleased to present Ser y Estar, an exhibition featuring a diverse group of contemporary Latino artists: Maria Esthela (Honduras), Sylvia Trotter Ewens (Honduras), Horacio Quiroz (Mexico), Hernan Soriano (Argentina), Matias Paradela (Argentina-Bolivia), Sofia Escobar (Peru-Ecuador), Liz Flores (Mexico-USA), and Aline Setton (Brazil). Their works span painting, sculpture, installation, and works on paper.

The exhibition's title, Ser y Estar, draws from the Spanish language's subtle distinction between ser (to be, in an essential or permanent state) and estar (to be, in a temporary or situational state). This duality serves as the conceptual foundation for the exhibition, exploring themes of presence, transformation, and materiality. Rather than focusing on identity, migration, or socio-political narratives, Ser y Estar highlights the formal and conceptual depth of these artists' practices.

Through abstraction and figuration, spatial intervention, and experimentation with materials, the artists in Ser y Estar engage with the tension between permanence and impermanence, the tangible and the ephemeral. The exhibition provides a platform for emerging and established Latino artists, bringing their work to a wider audience and reinforcing their place in the global contemporary art dialogue.

The opening of Ser y Estar coincides with the 8th anniversary of Duran Contemporain, a milestone the gallery is proud to mark with this exhibition. However, Ser y Estar is not a commemorative exhibition; it is a celebration of artistic innovation and talent.

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