Vica Pacheco: Calyx Imaginalis

19 SEPTEMBER – 2 NOVEMBER 2024

Opening reception:
Sep. 19th – 6 to 9 pm 
Gallery Weekend Hours:
Sep. 20th – 22nd – 11-7 pm

PEANA is pleased to announce Vica Pacheco’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. 

This exhibition presents itself as an essay exploring the anatomy of Vica Pacheco’s sonic universe and the creatures that inhabit it, many of which oscillate between botanical spaces and the delicate boundary of fiction.

Calyx Imaginalis recovers vibration as a pollinator, drawing inspiration from the structure of flowers and their components. It uses these forms as a receptacle that connects nature with its meditative dimension through sound and organic shapes.

Vica’s exploration in producing this body of work constitutes an experimental organology, where botanical diversity serves as a pretext for investigating morphological details that produce vibrations. In this process, sound intertwines with visual textures, creating a hybrid sensory experience.

In this fictional ecosystem, plant forms act as landscapes of subtle sounds, opening an immersive listening channel to the botanical world. While the species in this garden embrace taxonomic ambiguity, the space is envisioned as a garden weaving a bridge where rhythms evoke the interdependence between all forms of life through the amplification of whispers from these pseudobiological creatures. An eternal space.

Amid the city, this garden shares the rhythm of plants that manage to sprout through the concrete floor, paused by a mechanism of metal frameworks holding ceramic containers, resonators, and studies of shape possibilities. For a moment, it attempts to mimic a gardened language, floral chants. An encounter between the sigh, burnt earth, the brevity, and the fleeting nature of an artificial bulb about to be born.