KALEID Gallery is proud to present:

Embodied Perception
Valentino Loyola solo exhibition

Opening reception: Friday November 4, 2022 5pm–9pm
part of the South First Fridays ArtWalk SJ.

Loyola’s photographic artwork, “Embodied Perception,” conceptually, is an ongoing series that speaks to how, he, first, and others construct our own narratives; the realities of our personhoods; how we as individuals perceive ourselves and self-subscribed value, how we conform to the perceptions of self and those of exterior vantage points; not conforming; deconstructing and reconstructing our own realities and the internalizing of these perceptive points then, actively, embodying these perceptions to manifestation becoming a living installation of identity within the public sphere(s). 

Formally, the work follows two qualitative functions: a physical construction, tear down, and re-construction of the printed photograph and are at large rendered using a solarization, digital process that pulls the light and dark information in an image into opposite directions. This inverse movement of inside out/outside in is connected to the idea of introspection and internalization. Digital and analogous; constructed works and exact prints aim to depict our constructed realities, the idea of perceptions we embody. 

About the Artist 
Valentino Loyola is an interdisciplinary artist working in mixed media(s) with a specific focus on the photographic image as a stand-alone object and, considers how that object can evolve, merging it with other media(s) to create art that is imbued with a sense of drama, structural dynamism and engaging with the audience to activate the multidimensionality between viewer and art, indicative of mediation. 

Solo Exhibition Dates: November 4–25, 2022

Gallery hours:
Thursdays and Fridays 12pm–7pm, Saturdays 12pm–5pm, and First Fridays 5pm–9pm.
Free admission.

KALEID Gallery
320 S. 1st St.
San Jose, CA 95113
info@kaleidgallery.com
408-947-1785