Identidad
January 5 to 21, 2024
Xchanges Gallery is pleased to announce the opening on January 5, 2024 of Isabel Carolina González Quiroz’s solo exhibition, Identidad.
This exhibition contemplates two moments that González Quiroz identified in the process of adaptation in her experience as a Latin American immigrant. It is a series of mixed media works that share the same gesture: the fingerprint.
The fingerprint operates in this project as a symbol of a mutable identity, which in the case of the migrant subject configures another person with another identity: a BIPOC identity and a minority identity. At the same time, another identity disappears. Among other things, the professional and social identity disappears, the daily use of the mother tongue and the personality that that language expresses disappear.
The exhibition is made up of two parts that indicate two moments of elaboration of this experience and that propose a transition towards adaptation, from the individual to the community.
About the Artist
Isabel Carolina González Quiroz is a Chilean visual artist and psychologist based in Lekwungen Territories (Victoria, B.C.)
To learn more about this show and the artist, please visit Isabel’s artist page.
Opening night:
Friday, January 5, 2024, from 7 to 9 p.m.
Gallery hours:
Open every weekend from Saturday, January 6 until Sunday, January 21 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Artist talk:
The artist talk will be held in person and online on Saturday, January 13 at 2 p.m.
Zoom meeting passcode: 823782
Xchanges gratefully acknowledges the support of the Province of British Columbia and the Capital Regional District for our gallery programs.
