Monotipos tropicales IV, 2023

Sol Calero b. 1982, Caracas, Venezuela | Lives and works in Berlin Sol Calero is known for building vibrant, immersive worlds that draw from the textures of Latin American visual culture—hair salons, classrooms, dance studios, tropical motifs—all reframed with a painter’s eye and a deep awareness of cultural symbolism. Working across painting, installation, and print, her practice navigates the intersection of identity, ornament, and constructed memory. Informed by both diaspora and architecture, Calero’s work invites viewers to step into unfamiliar yet oddly familiar spaces—spaces that question the boundaries between art and decoration, origin and interpretation. Whether through large-scale environments or intimate monotypes, she offers an unapologetically colourful language that reclaims visual storytelling as a political and poetic act.

This work doesn’t describe a place—it evokes one. A place that lives more in warmth than in detail. With Monotipos tropicales IV, Sol Calero offers a landscape felt rather than seen, a memory on the cusp of dissolving. Rendered in monotype—a technique that allows for no exact repetition—each gesture feels instinctive, unrehearsed. As with much of Calero’s practice, this piece lingers in the space between identity and imagination, ornament and origin. The colours don’t just decorate; they pulse. They carry stories we may never fully name, but somehow recognise.

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