Annette Turrillo

Walking together: for them and for us

I don’t want to play

In I DO NOT WANT TO PLAY, Turrillo uses the iconography of two objects, to make a single image and in her speech, we are challenged by her evocation, her feeling of fragility, of disagreement.

The girl's dress as opposed to women's shoes, gives us a narrative in which the complaint is present, to the still existing and increasing child abuse in different societies, whether due to physical or mental abuse, imposition of work, impediment to study, abuse and sexual slavery.

Annette Turrillo (Venezuela, 1977)

Turrillo’s artwork focuses on the themes of reflection, introspection, and symbolism. Her installations take the spectator through a sensorial experience of space and volume, establishing a dialogue between spirit and body.

The large cloth evokes serenity, reflection about human balance and inner view, and has been the central axis of her work throughout the years.

BIO

Annette's artwork is based on her personal concerns and research, on art’s power of awareness through introspection, the onlooker's spiritual  essence and consequently the projection of his or her surroundings, both in society and in life. The element is transformed into densely knitted interpretations, inviting the spectator to  participate. Once these consequential elements are conceptualized, they guide us in self-reflection. Annette introduces opposing forces, the spiritual and the sensual, thus integrating a  new media for human nature dichotomy.

She has spent years researching different materials, adding a new dimension to her installations, attaching different textures to her artwork, emphasizing the sensuality of the lace, the  intimacy, and memories they evoke.

Annette Turrillo was born in Caracas, Venezuela. After having obtained her architecture degree at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, she moved to Paris to embrace her life as an  artist/painter in 1996. She studied Fine Art at the University Paris VIII and engraving techniques, drawing and serigraphy.

She has been invited to participate in numerous solo and group museum exhibitions, biennals and artfairs, worldwide, including: L’Atemporel, Dialectique de l’image, Espace Cloître  des Billettes, Paris, France, 2020. Textile Poetics, Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural, Austin, Texas, USA, 2020. Against Gravity, DORCAM, Doral Contemporary Art  Museum, Miami, USA, 2018. Sublimations, Women in History (solo), Coral Gables Museum, FL, USA , 2017. A Thought for the Planet (solo), Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA.  2012. David Kakabadze Contemporary Museum of Art, Kutaisi, Georgia, 2016. National Art Gallery, El Dorado Today exhibition, Caracas, Venezuela, 2007. Salon Exxon, Sacred  Museum, Caracas, Venezuela, 2001. Transformaciones, Presencias y Ausencias, Fundation BBVA, Caracas, Venezuela, 2002. Her artwork has earned the recognition of the  specialized media and the public, and is represented in European and Latin American collections.

WORKS INCLUDED IN THE EXHIBITION