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AINEKI  
TRAVERSO
Solo presentation with
Wolfgang Gallery
at The Armory Show 2025
Jacob Javits Center
New York, NY

Booth F6-Focus Section
Sept. 4 - 7, 2025

Installation View Installation View Zamba de mi esperanza, amanecida como un querer, 2025, oil on panel, 72 x 48 in. Omphalos I (they invented a flower like a star like a dream of a shepherd), 2025, oil on panel, 60 x 36 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.
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.