Gabriela García-Luna INEFFABLE

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Gabriela García-Luna, INEFFABLE installation view

Gabriela García-Luna

INEFFABLE

exhibition runs: July 2 - August 2

reception: Saturday June 19, 2 - 4 PM

"For me, imagination is synonymous with discovery. To imagine, to discover, to carry our bit of light to the living penumbra where all the infinite possibilities, forms, and numbers exist. I do not believe in creation but in discovery, and I don’t believe in the seated artist but in the one who is walking the road. The imagination is a spiritual apparatus, a luminous explorer of the world it discovers. The imagination fixes and gives clear life to fragments of the invisible reality where man is stirring... The imagination hovers over reason the way fragrance hovers over a flower, wafted on the breeze but tied, always, to the ineffable center of its origin."

- Federico Garcia Lorca

Art Placement is delighted to present INEFFABLE, an exhibition of recent works by Gabriela García-Luna. Born in Mexico City, García-Luna has resided in Canada for more than two decades, and has been based in Saskatoon since 2018. Her decades-long career is primarily in the realm of photography, in which she blends digital and analog approaches, in combination with drawing, printmaking, video, and installation. Garcia-Luna has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards and her work can be found in public and private collections nationally and internationally. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions throughout Canada and abroad in Mexico, United Kingdom, and India. This is her first solo exhibition in Saskatoon at Art Placement.

Gabriela Garcia-Luna’s most recent works are not traditional photographs in the documentarian sense; rather, they are photo-based collages that poetically explore the complex and often unknowable aspects of feeling and remembrance. The camera is Garcia-Luna’s journal, a tool for gathering snippets of everyday life--the people, places, and objects she encounters. She mines this visual archive, breaking down and recombining image fragments into ethereal, constellation-like compositions where delicate, organic forms seem to float, suspended in an ambiguous spatial realm. Garcia-Luna plays with scale and the layering of opaque and semi-translucent forms to create a subtly shifting sense of expansion and contraction. The effect, like memory and emotion, is elusive, intangible, and fleeting.