Sinuous Sculptures by Mexican Artist Geles Cabrera Resurface in Americas Society

An exhibition at the Americas Society in New York aims to reinstitute the prolific Mexican sculptor Geles Cabrera, an artist who created rhythmic studies of the human form for more than six decades but remains little-known outside of Mexico. The show partly recreates the museum Cabrera founded in the 1960s to showcase her work, comprising 50 compelling carved sculptures, some that could be likened to pre-Columbian phallic and fertility symbols and ceremonial objects.

Cabrera was born in 1926 and studied at the Academia Nacional de San Carlos and La Esmeralda. In her formative years, she was trained in drawing and painting and performed in an avant-garde dance company, an influence that would be evident as she shifted her focus to sculpture.

“There’s a lightness and movement in her work,” says the curator Rachel Remick, who co-curated the exhibition with Aimé Iglesias Lukin, the organization’s chief curator and director of visual artists, and the curator Tie Jojima. “She’s attentive to posing and the shape of the body and visual cues related to gender and how that is expressed.”…

The exhibition is the first show in the institution’s inaugural curatorial focus on overlooked women artists. “Americas Society has always been a platform for artists to show in New York who haven’t had shows in bigger institutions,” Remick says. “We’re focusing on people like Cabrera who have been understudied and just generally expanding scholarship on female voices in the arts.”…

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