at The Armory Show 2025
Jacob Javits Center, New York, NY
Booth F6-Focus Section
Sept. 4 - 7, 2025
Wolfgang Gallery announcement
Aineki employs the rhetoric of painting to articulate a personal narrative rooted in poetics and impossibility. Aineki's filmmaking background provides a conceptual and material foundation for a phenomenological approach to painting, in which site-specific installations serve as allusions to the gaze, the lens, architectural space, and situational aesthetics. The iconography in the paintings is derived from a personal archive that includes inherited and found materials, the foundation of which relies on thousands of family photos that span generations and homelands and contain multitudes of histories, memories, and fantasies.
Installation view 1
Zamba de mi esperanza, 2025, oil on panel, 72 x 48 in.
Omphalos I, 2025, oil on panel, 60 x 36 in.
Omphalos II, 2025, oil on panel, 60 x 36 in.
A greener laurel than the bay, 2025, oil on panel, 30 x 24 in.
Hundido en horizonte, 2025, oil on panel, 24 x 18 in.
Nature, nature! I am your bride; take me as I am! 2025, oil on panel, 48 x 60 in.
Installation view 2
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