Adrian S. Bará
Bio
Adrián S. Bará (b. 1982) is a Mexican-born artist currently residing in New York. His artistic practice combines sculpture, painting, film and installation.
In film, Bará was the cinematographer for the documentary The Solitude of Memory, which was included in the Cannes Film Festival in 2015. In 2016, Bará was a resident of the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York, and an artist in residency at Queenspace, also in New York in 2017. He has exhibited his work in solo and group shows at venues such as ArtCenter / South Florida, Miami, USA, Paul Kasmin gallery, New York, USA, Casey Kaplan gallery, New York, USA, Gallery Johannes Vogt, New York, USA, Travesia Cuatro, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, Zapopan Art Museum (MAZ), Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico and Páramo Gallery, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
Statement
Adrian S. Bará’s (b. 1982) practice, at its core, explores the body and its relation to space and modern architecture, as well as its representation at the intersection between sculpture, installation, painting, and video. The artist’s training as a filmmaker drives his narrative—pulling in from daily materials and positions to construct ‘sculpted situations’ that are meant to be activated by viewers as they project their own accounts into the objects that invite them to do so. Bará ́s artwork often functions as archival traces of personal events—as stories that are meant to be intervened, challenged, and transformed through acts of looking.
