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    Valeska Soares

    Broken Year (April 2020), 2020-2021
    Antique book pages on linen in 30 parts
    10 x 8 in each (25.4 x 20.3 cm each)
    62 x 74 in overall (157.5 x 188 cm overall)
    VS098

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    Valeska Soares is renowned for her deft deployment of minimalist and conceptualist strategies that lend poetics to memory, emotion, and loss. Conceived as a broken calendar that marks the artist’s...
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    Valeska Soares is renowned for her deft deployment of minimalist and conceptualist strategies that lend poetics to memory, emotion, and loss. Conceived as a broken calendar that marks the artist’s experience of the passage of time, Broken Year (2020–2021) is bookended by two significant dates: March 1, 2020, when Soares began self-isolating due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and March 29, 2021, when she received her second dose of the vaccine. Collectively, the works take the shape of a monumental physical calendar, with stretched linen-canvas panels grouped in the familiar grid of a traditional calendar. For each panel, Soares selects pages from second-hand books with particularly meaningful or evocative phrases, applying them to the canvases to mark the calendar days. Here, the restrained formality of the grid—amplified by quantity and repetition—transmits the ways in which the pandemic has transformed our relationship to time.
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    Exhibitions

    2022: Broken Year, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY

    Literature

    White, Katie. "'I Couldn't Deal With the Social Life': Why Artist Valeska Soares Decided to Leave New York for Her Native São Paulo After 30 Years." artnet news, March 8, 2022.
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