Valeska Soares: Any Moment Now

“Valeska Soares: Any Moment Now” brings together 49 artworks, consisting of installation, sculpture, photography, and video, dating from the early 1990s to the present. A distinctive figure in the international legacy of installation art, Soares interweaves themes of love, desire, memory, and time in her minimal, conceptual, and multi-sensorial bodies of work. Sourcing collected and found objects, such as books, light fixtures, antique stools, carpets, mirrors, anonymous portrait paintings, and even flowers, the artist repurposes such materials, subverting their original use and inviting new meaning. The referent installation, “Any Moment Now…” (2014), for instance, is a series of 365 vintage dust jackets that are by transformed by Soares into a subjective mapping of a year’s time. The images and titles of each cover, from books such as “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” “The Morning After,” and “Now or Never,” combine together in this installation to generate new and ever-shifting narratives. This exhibition represents the artist’s second survey exhibition and her first major solo museum exhibition in the Western United States, and is co-organized by the Phoenix Art Museum, where it will be on view in spring 2018.

“Valeska Soares: Any Moment Now” is part of the major initiative, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a far-reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles taking place from September 2017 through January 2018.

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Image: Valeska Soares, “Any Moment Now…”, 2014. 365 vintage dust jackets mounted on linen panels and 4 vintage library ladders. Installation view Eleven Rivington Gallery, 2014. Courtesy Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo. Photo Credit: Charles Benton. Image courtesy of the Artist.