The Crisp-Ellert Art Museum (CEAM) and Flagler College are proud to present a new solo exhibition: ‘en la noche prevalece un corazón lleno’ featuring Spanish artist Pablo Vindel. Curated by former director Julie Dickover, the exhibition will be on view from Oct. 4 through Nov. 26. The artist will lead a walkthrough of the exhibition on Friday, Oct. 4, 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. during the First Friday Artwalk. This event is free and open to the public.
Vindel holds degrees in both fiber and material studies and poetry in the expanded field. The title of his exhibition, loosely translating from Spanish to English as “in the night a full heart prevails,” alludes to an excerpt from Vindel’s mother’s poem published in 1976. His work explores a constellation of familial relationships, an homage to those he loved and lost, giving the process of grief and acceptance tangible form. As the artist says: “language must remain in constant movement to be transformed. Its malleability and capacity to reflect us, connects object and language, the word, and our bodies. I see this translation—material or linguistic—as a space of uncertainty, impulse, and loss.”
During his 2022 artist residency, as a collaborative initiative between the CEAM Artist Residency at Flagler College and the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in Washington D.C., Vindel engaged with the Flagler and St. Augustine communities, collaborated with students, staff, and faculty on campus through class visits and special projects such as his community workshop on artist books. Inspired by this visit, his upcoming solo exhibition at the Crisp is comprised of 15 works.
Vindel’s beautifully made objects are biological, performative, and textual in nature, reflecting the raw talent of the emerging artist based in Valencia, Spain. Each piece stemming from one another, the heart of the show being his artist book ‘jewelry for healing son’. The exhibition’s text, written by poet Terri Witek, discusses the rose petals featured as skin – bodies lengthening and stretching, the preservation process prolonging their life – an extension of his grief over the loss of his mother and a path to charting constellations holding both pain and joy. Through his delicate yet stirring approach, the artist plays with this concept of preservation as he walks the viewer through a memoir of objects. Part memory and part legacy, Vindel’s vignette of his personal and familial past and present is tenderly expressed through the repeated motifs of roses, thorns, and gold.
About the Artist: Pablo Vindel (Spain, 1990) is a multilingual visual artist and writer. With a practice that straddles both the familiar and foreign, the tactile engagements of his work he says: “complicates transparency invites new voices to hint at their presence, new surfaces to unwind and provoke.” Vindel holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Stetson University (2019), an MFA in Studio from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2016), and a BFA from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain (2014). In 2020, he founded The Liminal, a gallery and producer of contemporary art focusing on women and queer artists. Vindel has completed residencies in Brazil, Chile, India, Spain, Turkey, and the U.S. His work has been featured internationally in both solo and group exhibitions, as well as art fairs. Exhibited widely in Europe, Asia, and the United States, he currently lives and works in Valencia.
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CEAM programming is supported through grants from the Dr. JoAnn Crisp-Ellert Fund at The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida, the St. Johns County Tourist Development Council, the St. Johns Cultural Council and voco, an IGH hotel.
The Crisp-Ellert Art Museum is an accessible building. If you are a person with a disability and need reasonable accommodation, please contact Phil Pownall at (904) 819-6460. Sign Language Interpreters are available upon request with a minimum of three days’ notice.
For further information on our programming, please visit the website at www.flagler.edu/ceam, or contact interim director Helena Rodriguez at (904) 826-8530 or crispellert@flagler.edu. The museum’s hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturday, 12 to 4 p.m., while classes are in session.
