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Alexander Gray Associates, Installation view, ADAA: The Art Show 2022
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Ricardo Brey
Just Right, 2020Mixed mediaDimensions variableRBR243Further images
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Part of Ricardo Brey’s Every Life is a Fire series, archival boxes that unfold to reveal elaborate, hidden worlds, Just Right (2020) opens to present a solar system. Reminiscent of...Part of Ricardo Brey’s Every Life is a Fire series, archival boxes that unfold to reveal elaborate, hidden worlds, Just Right (2020) opens to present a solar system. Reminiscent of mechanical models of our solar system called orreries, which became popular in Europe during the Enlightenment, Brey’s spheres rest on a turtle’s shell. Hinting at further hidden interiority, the shell also pays homage to the world turtle of indigenous North American myth that carries the Earth on its back. A hybrid construction that marries European and American thought, Just Right speaks to the artist’s own biography as a Cuban immigrant who settled in Ghent, Belgium. Always seeking ways to bridge his two identities—drawing on Western and non-Western fields of thought—in Just Right Brey presents a personal cosmology that invites viewers to consider humanity's unique, but tiny place within an expansive universe much greater than ourselves.Exhibitions
2021: Blue Shore, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NYPublications
Mpoma, Annie Wetsi, Hannah Iterbeke, Koen Leemans, and Peter Verhelst. Ricardo Brey: Gap in the Clouds. Luc Derycke, Femke Vandenbosch, and Isabel Brey eds. Exh. cat. Ghent: MER. Imprint of Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, 2022, pp. 37, 39, 56–59.2of 2 -
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