Cecilia Paredes: The Weaving of Dust: San Antonio

Ruiz-Healy Art is pleased to present Cecilia Paredes : The Weaving of Dust on view at our San Antonio gallery from September 28, 2023 to November 18, 2023. This will be the fourth solo exhibition for Peruvian born, Philadelphia based, artist Cecilia Paredes at Ruiz-Healy Art. The Weaving of Dust  will include fully a illustrated catalogue accompanied by an essay by art historian Emily Alesandrini. 

"The choice of wallpaper for Paredes is not trivial; it’s a source of inspiration. The wallpapers used by Cecilia Paredes allow her to cross the border between dream, memory, or reality and link them to a 'ready-made' interior. This idea of interior refers to a house, a home, and creates a parallel with herself, her intimacy." - Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal

"When I was living in Costa Rica, nature was very much at hand. You drive for 20 minutes and you are in the most amazing tropical rainforest or tropical dry forest. Before moving to Costa Rica I had never seen a tropical dry forest before. When you enter a tropical dry forest, everything is completely dry, dry the trees, dry the leaves, dry where you're standing. You think that everything is dead, until something in the tree blinks, an animal pops out to say hello, having no idea that anything there was alive, it is intriguing and marvelous. I started portraying animals from that realm, such as the skunk, snake, or armadillo, out of love and admiration." - Cecilia Paredes

“When I came to live in Philadelphia, I started the Paisajes series in which I tell about relocations, what I miss, what is new and how I fit into my new surroundings. In this sense, it is the result of my constant nomadism that I hope to be over." - Cecilia Paredes

Paredes pursued her Fine Arts studies at the Catholic University of Lima and Cambridge Arts in the UK. In 1998, she was awarded The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency Program. She lived and worked in Costa Rica from 1998 to 2004 and represented the country at the 51st Venice Biennial in 2005. Cecilia Paredes received the 2014 International Award for Artistic Excellence at the Pingyao International Festival of Photography. She has exhibited widely in North, South, and Central America, Asia, Australia, and Europe with solo exhibitions at major institutions, including the Tabacalera Space, Madrid, Spain, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia, and the Costa Rica Museum of Art. Her work is in numerous collections, such as the Museo del Barrio, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH); San Antonio Museum of Art, TX; and the Museum of Contemporary Art Panama.