Jennifer Carvalho: An Archive of Gestures
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Center of International Contemporary Art Vancouver 228 Abbott Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 1C8
Photo credit: LFdocumentation
“An archive of gestures (enclosed garden)”, 2025 (courtesy the artist and Franz Kaka, Toronto)
CICA Vancouver is honored to present An Archive of Gestures, by Canadian artist Jennifer Carvalho. On view from June 27 to August 10, 2025, the exhibition invites visitors to explore a space where time folds in on itself and echoes of the past linger in the present.
In An Archive of Gestures, Carvalho composes a requiem for a future that never arrives. Through cinematic framings of hand gestures, weeping faces, Renaissance gardens, ancient masks, jewels, and garments, she transports the viewer to a past echoed in the now—and to a future that remains out of reach. As Mark Fisher writes in Hauntology, Lost Futures, and Depression, art after modernism emerges as a layering of fragments from art created in the past. Carvalho embraces this condition with intention, blending historical imagery into new compositions that guide the viewer’s attention toward fragments she finds continue to resonate. The result is a series of intimate close-ups: gestures and visual remnants reimagined through the artist’s lens.
We cordially invite you to the celebration of our opening reception, which will take place on June 26, 2025, from 5 – 8 PM. The artist will be present.
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