Sandra Vásquez de la Horra at Gutshaus Steglitz, Berlin, Germany
Das archetypische Ich, 11 Mar - 27 Aug 2023
Gathering forty works from the past twenty years, ‘Das archetypische Ich’ is the first institutional exhibition of Sandra Vásquez de la Horra in Berlin.
Installation views courtesy of the artist and Gutshaus Steglitz. Photo Ludger Paffrath
Her artistic practice consists in creating extraordinary universes populated by mythologies and visions; stories and symbols inspired by history and collective memories such as political and social violence during the 20th and 21st century; literature, movies and folklore. ‘Das archetypische Ich’ explores the archetype theory of Carl Gustav Jung, about the existence of a collective unconscious.
This exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue published by Distanz Verlag with texts by Raphael Fonseca, Jenny Graser and Friedhelm Mennekes.
Installation views courtesy of the artist and Gutshaus Steglitz. Photo Ludger Paffrath
'Los Paseantes' from 2019 was conceived in the form of a cross section of a building, suggesting a multiple-story stage architecture divided into four separate rooms. Each of these is inhabited by individual figures or by figures combined into pairs. as is characteristic of Vásquez de la Horra's pictures, the individual scenes stand loosely side by side and do not generate a linear narrative. However, the artist has nonetheless produced links between the different spheres through the luxuriant growth of the plants, for example, or the rainbow-coloured rays of light that spread throughout the entire building.
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Los Paseantes, 2019, courtesy of the artist and Gutshaus Steglitz. Photo Ludger Paffrath