Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza

Curated by Marc Lenot,  AICA France 2014 Laureate

Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza Solo Show 

From April 18 to June 28, 2015

"All of Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza’s work, whatever her chosen means of expression (symbolical, narrative, indexical or simply evocative) or media (photography, video, installations, texts, performances), bears witness to the same highly coherent approach, as if each individual piece was one fragment of a global work of which we can only see the beginnings, the tip of the iceberg. Her work deals with visibility and absence, history and memory, displacement and territory, but always with simplicity and economy of means."

The Franco-Ecuadorian artist Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza came to the CPIF as part of a postproduction residency to finalise her series un air d’accueil. Marc Lenot, an art critic and blogger, chose to present her work for his participation in the AICA France Art Criticism Prize (which he was awarded by an international jury from the International Art Critics Association in March 2014). The prize led to a book, whose publication was funded by AICA France, and the organisation of this exhibition. Fragments liminaires, without being a retrospective of this young artist’s work, brings together a certain number of her older pieces, which put into perspective her recent series un air d’accueil.

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Press conference - Saturday April 17 from 11am to 2pm 

With Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza and Marc Lenot
By appointment with Diana Madeleine
diana.madeleine@cpif.net / 01 64 43  53 90

Opening - Saturday April 18 at 3pm 

Free shuttle from Paris
Departure at Place de la Bastille à 2.15pm – Adavanced booking necessary at 01 70 05 49 80 or contact@cpif.net

Book Signing - Saturday June 27 at 3pm to 5pm -   Hospitalités 2015 TRAM

Signing of the Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza's monography published by Les Presses du Réel and produced by l’AICA France (texts by Marc Lenot, the cuban art critic Lupe Alvarez, Raphaël Cuir, président of AICA France, and Nathalie Giraudeau, Director of CPIF (trilingual french-english-spanish), with both the artist and the curator. 

More information: Hospitalités - Vies de châteaux