“CONCRETE FAÇADE”. Main Gallery
“UNFOLDING”. Project Room
April 6, — May 31, 2025
Dot Fiftyone Gallery is pleased to present two concurrent exhibitions: “Concrete Façade”, a group photography exhibition exploring architecture, memory, and power, in the main gallery, and “Unfolding”, a solo exhibition by Hernán Cédola, in the project room.
CONCRETE FAÇADE
Anastasia Samoylova, Linet Sánchez, Edison Peñafiel, Gian Paolo Minelli,
Amanda Linares, and Mitzi Falcón.
Concrete Façade is a group photography exhibition where architecture becomes a lens for exploring form, memory, and politics. Featuring works by Anastasia Samoylova, Linet Sánchez, Edison Peñafiel, Gian Paolo Minelli, Amanda Linares, and Mitzi Falcón, the exhibition examines façades as both masks and mirrors and as structures that conceal deeper truths while shaping perception.Through projects like Image Cities and Floridas (Samoylova), Barrio Alto (Peñafiel), Sementerxs (Falcón), Cárcel de Caseros y Zona Sur Barrio Piedra Buena (Minelli), 00:00:00 (Sánchez), and Between Islands and Peninsulas (Linares), the artists peel back layers of history, identity, and power embedded in architecture. These works invite us to question the authenticity of the surfaces that define our surroundings, pushing us to reflect on the deeper narratives they conceal. Organized by Edison Peñafiel and accompanied by an exhibition essay by Aldeide Delgado, Concrete Facade is presented with the support of ArtSeen365 and MAD Arts.
“Both photography and architecture are mediating systems that encode social, political, and aesthetic principles through their constructed appearances. They can be seen as portals intersecting interior and exterior, private and public, real and imagined spaces.” - Aldeide Delgado, in ‘Concrete Façade, Demystifying Truth in Photography’
UNFOLDING
Hernán Cédola
This new presentation by Hernán Cédola in Miami marks his fifth exhibition with Dot Fiftyone Gallery.
For Unfolding, Cédola transforms the gallery’s project room with a series of recent works, inviting a more intimate dialogue between the viewer and a body of work that explores new pictorial expressions. Through gestural intensity and sublimated emotions, the artist reveals a process of continuous evolution and discovery.
The exhibition extends an invitation to an open visual discourse. By exposing the creative process, Cédola turns the viewer into a witness to the image’s construction, revealing its mutable and evolving nature.
His works bear visible traces of their making, shaping an aesthetic of uncertainty—where the image is not a fixed conclusion but a form in flux. Each piece becomes a record of its becoming, capturing moments of doubt, persistence, and improvisation. Pauses and shifts in direction are not concealed but embraced as integral to both composition and meaning. The image remains in constant transformation, carrying its history while evolving through time and the gaze of the viewer.
Hernán Cédola´s (b. 1977, La Plata, Argentina) work has received a great critical welcome since 2004. He has participated in individual and group exhibitions in Argentina, Germany, the United States, Bolivia, Italy, and Mexico. In 2015 and 2017, he participated in the residency Atelier Höherweg in Düsseldorf, Germany. He studied art with Tulio de Sagastizabal and Photography with Ataúlfo Pérez Aznar. He is part of Filoso, a group that meets for discussions on Philosophy and Aesthetics.
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