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LONDON.- Dairy Art Centre is presenting Smoking Kills, a Centre-curated exhibition of works by Adriana Lara made between 2006–2012. Comprising a variety of media—sculpture, screen-print, block-print, readymades and installation—the show focuses on the artist’s expansive research on visual language.
Mediating the galleries are several Symbol Faces works from a series of screen-printed stretched plastic paintings. Here affable genderless faces composed of type symbols (characters such as &, $, %, *, #, !) overlap transparent photographs of a Mexican actress who had a brief and marginally successful career in Mexico, Hollywood and Broadway during the 1930s. Being a cypher to a contemporary audience, this actress represents the sex symbol as the blank canvas that all symbols inevitably are.
Smoking kills : a selection of works by Adriana Lara
6 August - 14 September 2014
Dairy Art Centre, London
