Chaveli Sifre
Invisible Visible
Lot Closed
June 13, 07:25 PM GMT
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
Chaveli Sifre
b.1987
Invisible Visible
Executed in 2023.
Ceramic, crystal quartz
8 x 4 3/8 in. (20.32 x 11.11 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist and EMBAJADA, San Juan
Chaveli Sifre’s work centers on healing practices, the sense of smell, botany, and the belief systems constructed around them. Interested in intersensorial entanglement as knowledge production, Sifre creates installations, scents, paintings, and performative rituals that recover the long-lost intersections between science, spirituality, perfumery, medicine, magic, and care.
Chaveli Sifre (b. 1987 Würzburg, Germany) is a Puerto Rican artist based in Berlin. Sifre received her MA from Museumskunde, HTW, Berlin, Germany (2021) and her BFA from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico in San Juan (2010). She has been exhibiting internationally with solo exhibitions at Embajada, San Juan (2023), El Sitio, Barcelona, Spain (2022), El Lobi, Suan Juan, Puerto Rico (2019) Mana Contemporary, Chicago (2017), La Estación Espacial, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2016), and Roberto Paradise, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2013, 2011). Sifre has participated in numerous institutional groups shows including in the Clark Center, Montreal (2023), TBA21’s Meandering, Cordova (2022); Cuchifritos, New York (2022) TBA21’s Water as Intention (2022), Museo de Arte Contemporaneo (MAC), San Juan (2022), Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan (2021), Botanisches Garten, Berlin (2020); Salon Sophie Charlotte, Berlin (2020); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan (2020); Martin Gropius Bau (2018); Hamburger Bahnhof (2017); Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuale, Habana, Cuba (2017), and LACE, Los Angeles (2016) among others. The artist co-curated Peripheral Intuitions, a two-week-long program focused on the regenerative power of nightlife, and co-founded La Escuela del Olor, an artistic collective charting the olfactory landscape of the Caribbean.