An artist talk and live dance performance on Thursday, Oct. 10, will open the next exhibition in the De Pree Art Center and Gallery at Hope College.
The gallery will feature the exhibition “As we dwell in the fold” by Andrea Canepa from Thursday, Oct. 10, through Thursday, Nov. 7. The opening events on Oct. 10 will include an artist talk by Canepa at 5 p.m.; a live dance performance at 6 p.m. presented by Kaylin Bazick, Emilee Bowden and Maggie Mallery of Turning Pointe School of Dance of Holland that will be livestreamed at hope.edu/live; and a reception at 7 p.m.
The public is invited to the exhibition and the opening events. Admission is free.
“As we dwell in the fold” is an immersive, large-scale, wearable installation of metal and fabric sculptures. The piece is designed to be a tactile and experiential work activated first by a performance and later by the audience of the exhibition. All objects can be interacted with, and visitors alter the space through their experimentation with the many forms.
This project is in part inspired by Canepa’s research into various protective fabrics and their relation to the body: from funerary bundles of the ancient Paracas pre-Columbian culture, to tapadas — Peruvian women in colonial Lima who used a veil to cover their faces revealing just one eye, to the folding patterns of modern-day parachutes. Drawing from ancient rituals and the Andean cultures’ mythology of the underworld and death, Canepa explores how fabrics shape the way we relate to our bodies and the political and social aspects of un/wrapping or un/covering it. For the artist, fabrics can function as a preservation device — of the body, of identity — when they envelope it, but also as an aid to transcend body limits when they expand from it.
“As we dwell in the fold” debuted at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University in September 2023. The exhibition is currently on loan from the Broad Art Museum.
Andrea Canepa (Lima-1980) is a visual artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She works primarily with installation, sculpture, textiles and performance.
She started her studies in fine arts at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and completed them at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, where she graduated with a master's degree in visual arts and multimedia. She has received grants from the German Art Fund Foundation, the Senate for Culture and Europe in Berlin and Endesa Foundation (Spain), and awards including the ARCO Community of Madrid Prize for Young Artists and the Generaciones Prize (Spain). She has participated in a number of residencies, including Gasworks (UK), Jan Van Eyck Academie (Netherlands), Cité des Arts (France), Bauhaus Masters' Houses (Germany), MATADERO (Spain), Tokyo Wonder Site (Japan) and Beta Local (Puerto Rico), and was a 2018-19 recipient of the Spanish Academy in Rome Fellowship.
Canepa has had solo shows at the MSU Broad Museum, De Appel in Amsterdam, the Peruvian-American Cultural Institute (ICPNA) in Lima, Domus Artium Museum in Salamanca, the Museum of Teruel and Sant Andreu Contemporani in Barcelona. Her works are part of collections such as CA2M, IVAM, Museo de Teruel and MSU Broad Museum, and foundations such as Endesa, Montemadrid, DKV and Inelcom (Spain), Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (Germany) and MASM (Peru).
The gallery is open Mondays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Those without a Hope College ID (necessary to gain access to the building) should call 616-395-7500 to visit.
To inquire about accessibility or if you need accommodations to fully participate in the event, please email accommodations@hope.edu. Updates related to events are posted when available at hope.edu/calendar in the individual listings.
The De Pree Art Center and Gallery is located at 275 Columbia Ave., between 10th and 13th streets.