Artmedia Gallery has the pleasure of presenting at the DIAF the work of Gretel Capriles and Zura Lagarde, two artists who have had solo exhibitions at the gallery in recent times.   

At the heart of Capriles's Sentiment Journal series, produced in 2023 and 2024, is an introspective inquiry into the spectrum that defines human affectional connections. Her work traverses a range of feelings and states, including emotional disconnection, rupture, and healing—an enduring process that reflects the fragility and resilience of interpersonal bonds.  Capriles has avoided compiling documentary references on this complex process. Indeed, her work is far from the intentional recording of dramatic real-life scenes: she has moved her creativity to a more abstract plane.  

By her side, Zura Lagarde's The Silent Pulse Beneath Still Stone, dated 2024, proposes a sophisticated discourse through unexpected and poetic images, a collection of photographs that matches a metaphysical reflection on the becoming of beings and Nature with the pushing of the boundaries of photographic representation. She has used the four traditional elements of Nature—Earth, Water, Air, and Fire—as entrances to her visual speculations. She has based the last ones on specific objects and states of matter upon which natural energy and forces act as invoked by her practice.

About the artists 

Gretel Capriles is a Venezuelan artist and photographer based in Miami.  She earned her Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design and Photography from the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. Throughout her career, Capriles has honed her craft by assisting acclaimed photographers. Capriles has exhibited her art in a variety of prestigious venues and art fairs. Sentiment Journal was her first exhibition at Artmedia Gallery.

Zura Lagarde, born in Mexico City, is a self-taught photographer based in Miami. She studied Latin American Painting at the Casa Lamm Cultural Center and completed several workshops and courses in photography at the Página en Blando School, both in Mexico City. She has participated in group exhibitions in the USA and abroad. The Silent Pulse Beneath Still Stone was her third individual show and the first one at Artmedia Gallery.

About the curator 
José Antonio Navarrete (Cuban-Venezuelan, based in Miami) is a critic, researcher, and independent curator of art and visual culture. He is in charge of the ArtMedia curatorial program and participates in several international projects as a curator or writer contributor.  

About the gallery 
Artmedia Gallery was founded in 2012. Located in Little River, Miami, Florida, the gallery has the mission to exhibit and promote contemporary art based on photography and video practices. One of the gallery's central objectives is to explore the vast possibilities of the expanded notion of art through media technology.