Feria Material, Vol. 8
Andrea Festa presents a curated selection of works by Danny Avidan, Sinéad Breslin, and Andreas Zampella at Feria Material, Vol. 8, Latin America’s most vital platform for emerging and experimental contemporary art. Taking place at Sabino 369 in the vibrant Atlampa neighborhood of Mexico City, this edition of the fair offered an immersive and multidisciplinary atmosphere—a context that directly inspired the gallery’s choice to bring together three artists whose distinct styles form a coherent harmony.
Together, Avidan, Breslin, and Zampella engage with the liminal space between figuration and abstraction, between allegorical depth and direct form. Their works echo the fair’s commitment to bold programming, performative gestures, and intellectual openness.
On the left, Andreas Zampella rejects contextual framing, inviting viewers into a space where meaning is shaped by their own most intimate responses. He builds a dimension where the contrast between truth and fiction, spectator and actor, becomes fluid—offering fragmentary glimpses of the human condition through elusive palettes, symbolic architecture, and the use of collage as a distancing, isolating tool. Even chromatically, Zampella resists academic contamination, forging his own experimental vocabulary.
At the center, Sinéad Breslin employs the figure as both anchor and philosophical instrument, exploring metaphysical questions through layered, contemplative compositions. “I strive to create contemplative spaces that function both as a mirror and a window,” she states. Her fluid touch and luminous surfaces initially evoke a sense of lightness—one that is soon overtaken by emotional and psychological depth. Memory, identity, and constructed intimacy pulse within her vibrant canvases.
On the right, Danny Avidan brings painting to the edge of lyricism. Rooted in his personal biography and mythological imagination, his work draws on Greek, Indian, and Hebrew mythologies as shorthand to grapple with mortality, sexuality, and creation. With handmade charcoal, liquid-grainy pigments, and bamboo-mounted pencils, Avidan approaches the canvas with an intuitive, physical engagement that echoes Mediterranean painting traditions—from the tombs of Tarquinia to the abstractions of Twombly. His goal: to redefine painting as an act of personal and historical synthesis.
In the dialogical, performative space of Feria Material, Avidan, Breslin, and Zampella speak to a shared inquiry: how do we give form to the inner world? Their practices do not offer clear answers but rather evoke sensation, displacement, and reflection.
