Inevitable Intersection

April 4 – May 4, 2025

Liliana Lacayo and Hernán Rivera Luque

Curated by Marcos Valella

Opening reception April 4, 2025 

Press Release

Eternal Returns: Polyethylene, Machines, and the Sunset Mirage

Liliana sits outside on a folding chair, a little round table by her side. As she drinks and smokes a pile of coffee cups form at her feet, an artwork is becoming. A narrative is created around this seemingly simple act of reconnection. This process positions her as a conduit, her works are brain data stack, existing in a liminal space between the used objects original intent and the imagined objects that emerge uniquely into native illusions.

This is a comparable type of sequence of actions that you can picture when you see Hernan’s assemblage paintings and built sculptures of vinyl, water tanks, cups, cybertruck, lighters, etc.– a routine of finding and regathering. Hernan deconstructs his materials, where items like discarded advertisements to personal possessions are stripped away of content to reveal dystopian patterns. These remnants become his palette, grouped and sometimes encased in glass to generate new forms within negative space. His objects occupy a hard space.

Part 2.

Both Liliana and Hernan use the method of casting.

Can an intellectual model of art still transcend into something higher than itself by formally arranging material and color? In a sunset, color dissolves into illusion, blurring the line between organic and synthetic. Plastic, both ephemeral and eternal, lingers as a remnant of excess and transformation. A snake eats its tail, devouring its past to sustain its future – an inevitable intersection. It embodies the paradox of progress and regression, where movement forward is also a return to the same. In an art world of polyethylene and sunset mirages, a rat hole becomes a descent into the unseen, the discarded, and the forgotten—both a hiding place and an opening of our own making.

Liliana Lacayo is a sculptor and keeper of notebooks. Born in Miami, FL, she received her BFA from Pratt in 2015. Lacayo had a solo exhibition at Ron Providence Gallery, CT in 2022 and has been included in group exhibitions curated by Sabroso Projects, Lonesome Dove, CLEA RSKY, Mery Gates, Double Dutch, Love, Eddie's Garage, and 5950.expo. Lacayo once staged an illegal popup at Gagosian and has since founded a curatorial project called Billman Ballery. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Hernán Rivera Luque was born in Santiago, Chile. He currently lives and works in New York City. His work has recently been shown in exhibitions at Galerie Rainboww, NY (2019) Museo del Barrio, NY (2017), Y Gallery, NY (2017), Foundation Hippocrène, Paris (2016), Die Ecke Gallery, Santiago, Chile (2016), The New School, NY (2014), and Gitana Rosa Gallery, NY (2012). His work has also been shown at Museo de la Memoria, Santiago, Chile; La Capella, Barcelona, Spain; Museo de Art Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile; and Museo de Arte Precolombino e Indígena, Uruguay. He is currently part of the Residency program of Painting Space 122 - Project Studio Program, NY(2020).

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