Convergence of Horizons: Juan José Barboza-Gubo: Solo Exhibition

Praise Shadows is pleased to announce Convergence of Horizons, Juan José Barboza-Gubo’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, representing the Peruvian artist’s most ambitious and significant work to date. The artist addresses a question that has been at the forefront of his artistic practice: “How can one make visible that which never ceases to move?” Developed over more than two years and produced primarily in his Lima studio, Barboza-Gubo’s sculptures and drawings transform the gallery’s 2,000 square feet of space into an environment where matter appears to exist in a continuous state of flux. By carving, casting, and assembling solid materials until they appear liquid, organic, and atmospheric, the artist transforms recycled acrylic, glass, metal, lapis lazuli, and lianas (a woody vine) into manifestations of the same energy, as though each material retained the memory of an interrupted flow. Inspired by the extraordinary biodiversity of the Peruvian Amazon, these works do not seek to represent the landscape but rather to reveal the invisible forces that traverse it—growth, erosion, the circulation of water, sedimentation, and geological time—proposing a universe in which the organic and the artificial cease to be opposing categories and instead become expressions of the same vital force.

See below for the artist talk with Barboza-Gubo, moderated by Dr. Audrey N. Lopez, Director & Curator of Public Art, Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy