in Frieze London | 25 JUL 24

‘Smoke’: Adán Vallecillo

Galería Extra shows Adán Vallecillo’s ongoing project about mining extractivism in Honduras at Frieze London 2024

in Frieze London | 25 JUL 24

For Smoke at Frieze London 2024, Adán Vallecillo presents his long-term project ‘Bonanzas efímeras’, which intersects painting, sociology, dance and ceramics. Vallecillo creates abstract patterns from repurposed, hand-painted canvas patches, tracing the destruction of the land and the natural composition of the soil caused by mining activities and their polluting waste. The artist questions both ancestral and contemporary relationships with the earth, and highlights the ever-evolving processes of colonization and exploitation in the Global South.

Adán Vallecillo, Bonanza II, 2015–17. Courtesy: the artist and Galería Extra — Adán Vallecillo, *Bonanza II*, 2015–17. Courtesy: the artist

About Adán Vallecillo

Adán Vallecillo (b. 1977, Honduras) is a multidisciplinary Honduran artist. Trained in art and sociology in Honduras and Puerto Rico, Vallecillo’s artistic practice includes by in-house research projects that combine sociology and visuality.

Adán Vallecillo is presented by Galería Extra at Frieze London.

Further Information

Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2024, The Regent’s Park, 9 – 13 October 2024.

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^{Main Image: Adán Vallecillo,}^{Bonanza I}^{(detail), 2015–17. Collage, acrylic on canvas patches, 1.7 × 3.6 m. Courtesy: the artist}