Diana Sofía Lozano Perennial Pyromancy Dec 10, 2022 – Feb 5, 2023 www.paralleloaxaca.com Parallel Oaxaca is proud to present Diana Sofía Lozano´s first solo exhibition in Mexico Perennial Pyromancy. With a new body of works where an inspired biomimicry reveals generative satire as new identificatory affront. Inspired by a non-hierarchical understanding of aliveness, Lozano contrasts plants sentience, pleasure and pain, as networks that communicate the signals beyond our recognition and the violent implementation of ideas of control towards nature. Re-considering what is considered to be alive and how a militarized/technological visualization of warmth is understood as a signifier of being alive dispossess territories from their natural agencies. In Perennial Pyromancy Diana Sofía Lozano creates a mimicry of heat where self-igniting bodies emanate warmth as an exchange of behavioral expression, which elevate plants spectrum of recognition, hybridization and fabulation. Questioning what is to be seen and the distractive slowness of a landscape for a plant intelligence, the sculptural installation by Diana Sofia Lozano question the villanization of both nature/feminity in western fables, inhabiting the in-betweens of adaptation and self-redefinition, her sculptures present themselves as temperamental and speculative forms and taxonomic entities that neglect defined limits provoking a reading of nature with generative expansion. Diana Sofía Lozano (Cali, 1992) lives and works in New York City, has a BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and a MFA in Sculpture by Yale University, School of Art. Lozano has exhibited at Company Gallery, Wave Hill Gardens, Deli Gallery, and Rachel Uffner Gallery in NYC, Guerrero Gallery in San Francisco, New Image Art in Los Angeles, Casa Prado in Barranquilla Colombia, Orebro Konsthall in Orebro Sweden, Parallel Oaxaca, and Capsule Gallery in Shanghai China, among others. Diana Sofía Lozano Piromancia perenne Dec 10, 2022 – Feb 5, 2023 www.paralleloaxaca.com Parallel Oaxaca se complace en presentar la primera exposición individual de Diana Sofía Lozano en México Piromancia Perenne. Con un nuevo cuerpo de obras inspirado en una biomímesis que revela fronteras en clasificaciones neo-coloniales, las esculturas provocan nuevas afrentas de identificación. Inspirándose en un orden estructural no jerárquico, Lozano contrasta las capacidades sensibles de las plantas, su placer y dolor, como principios que comunican la violencia que implementa ideas de control sobre la naturaleza. Reconsiderando cómo las visualizaciones tecnológicas militarizadas de territorios geopolíticos despojaron sustancialmente las agencias de los órdenes naturales, Piromancia Perenne presenta cuerpos en estado de ignición emanando calor como un intercambio en su expresión conductual, lo cual eleva su espectro de reconocimiento e hibridación. Provocando un paisaje con diversas profundidades donde encontrarse la inteligencia de las plantas, la instalación escultórica de Diana Sofía Lozano imagina la adaptación, la germinación floral y una auto-redefinición como nuevas entidades taxonómicas temperamentales y especulativas. Diana Sofía Lozano (Cali, 1992) vive y trabaja en Nueva York, cursó estudios en The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, y tiene un MFA en escultura de Yale University, School of Art. Lozano ha expuesto Company Gallery, Wave Hill Gardens, Deli Gallery, Rachel Uffner Gallery en Nueva York, Guerrero Gallery en San Francisco, New Image Art en Los Angeles, Casa Prado en Barranquilla Colombia, Orebro Konsthall en Orebro Sweden, Parallel Oaxaca, y Capsule Gallery en Shanghai China, entre otros.
Diana Sofìa Lozano Ember-Bound, (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, mirrored acrylic, craft sand 110 x 45 x 40 cm
Diana Sofìa Lozano Ember-Bound, (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, mirrored acrylic, craft sand 110 x 45 x 40 cm
Diana Sofìa Lozano Perennial Pyromancy at Parallel /// Oaxaca
Diana Sofìa Lozano Ember-Bound, (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, mirrored acrylic, craft sand 110 x 45 x 40 cm
Diana Sofìa Lozano Ember-Bound, (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, mirrored acrylic, craft sand 110 x 45 x 40 cm
Diana Sofìa Lozano Ember-Bound, (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, mirrored acrylic, craft sand 110 x 45 x 40 cm
Diana Sofìa Lozano Ember-Bound, (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, mirrored acrylic, craft sand 110 x 45 x 40 cm
Diana Sofìa Lozano Ember-Bound, (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, mirrored acrylic, craft sand 110 x 45 x 40 cm
Diana Sofìa Lozano Ember-Bound, (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, mirrored acrylic, craft sand 110 x 45 x 40 cm
Diana Sofìa Lozano Ember-Bound, (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, mirrored acrylic, craft sand 110 x 45 x 40 cm
Diana Sofìa Lozano Ember-Bound, (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, mirrored acrylic, craft sand 110 x 45 x 40 cm
Diana Sofìa Lozano Psychotria (Pursed), (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, craft sand 100 x 35 x 35 cm
Diana Sofìa Lozano Psychotria (Pursed), (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, craft sand 100 x 35 x 35 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Diana Sofìa Lozano Psychotria (Pursed), (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, craft sand 100 x 35 x 35 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Diana Sofìa Lozano Psychotria (Pursed), (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, craft sand 100 x 35 x 35 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Diana Sofìa Lozano Psychotria (Pursed), (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, craft sand 100 x 35 x 35 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Diana Sofìa Lozano Psychotria (Pursed), (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, craft sand 100 x 35 x 35 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Diana Sofìa Lozano Psychotria (Coiled), (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, craft sand 70 x 45 x 35 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Diana Sofìa Lozano Psychotria (Coiled), (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, craft sand 70 x 45 x 35 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Diana Sofìa Lozano Psychotria (Coiled), (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, craft sand 70 x 45 x 35 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Diana Sofìa Lozano Psychotria (Coiled), (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, craft sand 70 x 45 x 35 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Diana Sofìa Lozano Ember - Bound (2022) Detail
Diana Sofìa Lozano Psychotria (Aflame, (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, craft sand 50 x 30 x 20 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Diana Sofìa Lozano Solar Ignition, (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, mirrored acrylic, craft sand 50 x 30 x 15 cm
Diana Sofìa Lozano Solar Ignition, (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, mirrored acrylic, craft sand 50 x 30 x 15 cm
Diana Sofìa Lozano Solar Ignition, (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, mirrored acrylic, craft sand 50 x 30 x 15 cm
Diana Sofìa Lozano Solar Ignition, (2022) aluminium wire, dyed wool felt, pigmented resin clay, epoxy resin, mirrored acrylic, craft sand 50 x 30 x 15 cm Diana Sofìa Lozano Perennial Pyromancy at Parallel /// Oaxaca
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