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Cristina Reyes is interested in expanding the collective subconscious and opening up new ways of seeing the world. Looking for an alternative to analytical interpretations, she searches for a mythological understanding of reality. Reyes looks into otherness and what is hidden or forgotten allowing symbols from the unconscious to emerge. She celebrates deformity by morphing shapes into unexpected forms, generating opportunities for new existence. What results is often playful and surreal, with a unique sense of humour and absurdity. Through this metamorphosis, the transfigured forms become talisman-like pieces capable of holding otherworldly powers.
Reyes explores her subjects through a variety of media: painting, drawing, sculpture, installation and video performance, often achieved through ritual practice. She varies between moments of explosive physical action and a more meditative pace of making. Her paintings are representations of figurative beings, often hybrid creatures, that with time become archetypes in her visual universe.
These personages are also invoked through movement, voice and interacting with her paintings and collection of objects in her video performances. Also, in her sculpture work, she places these found items in new contexts, creating juxtapositions that invite the viewer to reconsider their notion of reality. Reyes aims to arouse a sense of curiosity in the mind of the viewer, opening up possibilities of inner transformation and revival.
2024 Compost, Terrace Gallery, London
2024 Lost + Found, Atom Gallery, London
2024 Let Them In, Jealous Gallery, London
2022 The Misplaced Twin, Gallery Lost, London
2022 PostTRUTH, PostROOM Gallery, London
2021 The Rise of the Nonconformists, Whitecross St, London
2021 Outsiders, TKP Hive, London
2021 Gigantes, Koppel 540, Oxford Street, London
2020 Summer Showcase, TKP Picadilly, London
2019 Soplo, Casa Voa, Rio de Janeiro
2018 No Borders, Miscelanea, Barcelona
2015 Otra Vida, The Old Rotherhithe Library Project, London (solo exhibition)
2015 A Transient Space, Geddes Gallery, London
2015 Mythology, Drawing Book, Sydney
2014 Hinges, TripSpace Projects, London (solo exhibition)
2014 Outside Fixed Patterns, Art Represent, London
2013 Memorias Flotantes, Autograph Gallery, London (solo exhibition)
2013 Monsters, Drawing Book, Sydney
2012 Ghosts of Birds, Onca Gallery, Brighton
2011 Exhibition Match, Hayward Gallery, London
2011 Capetown, Plaza Santa Ana 15, Madrid
2011 Manos Negras, Jealous Gallery, London
2010 Portraits of my Life as a Bird, the Print House Gallery, London (solo exhibition)
2010 Decked Project, The Coningsby Gallery, London
2010 The Poachers Pocket, Towner & Hoxton Gallery, London
2010 Industry 02, Shunt, London
2009 Ocho Número Atómico, ROJO artspace, Barcelona
2009 Ocho Delicate Nature, ROJO artspace, Milano
2008 Spread the Lead, Gallery Hanahou, New York
2008 Industry, Shunt, London
2008 Tangents, Kunst Gallery, Gent
2022 Vyner Street Art, installation, performance/fashion runway, Vyner St, London
2019 Memory Light, installation, Aures, London
2015 Triptic, drawing improvisation, Tripspace, London
2013 Memorias Flotantes, installation, Autograph, London
2013 Reminisces Room, installations, Victoria Revealed exhibition, Kensington Palace, London
2011 Pair of Rabbits, drawings, V&A Friday Late, London
2008 Colour Me, installation, London Festival of Architecture, London
2023 Museo Inacabado de Arte urbano, Fanzara
2022 Whitecross Street Urban Art, London
2021 Whitecross Street Urban Art, London
2020 Pato Pez, London
2011 Sueños de Papel, The Print House Gallery, London
2009 Lugares hechos de Silencio, Design Festa Gallery, Tokyo
