Jessica Kairé

Jessica Kairé (born 1980) is a Guatemalan artist. She is based in New York and Guatemala.

Jessica Kairé
Born1980
Guatemala
NationalityGuatemalan
EducationHunter College

Early life

Jessica Kairé is a Jewish Guatemalan artist. She was born in 1980. Kairé moved to New York where she currently lives and continues to create art works.[1] Kairé studied at Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas in Guatemala and at Hunter College in New York where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in 2010.

Works

Confort Series

The Confort Series is a series of soft sculptures that represent various weapons.[2] Kairé created this series in 2009 in response to the violence in her home country. She used color fabric to create these weapons so that the viewers can get familiarized with them and not feel so intimidated by them. Some of the weapons that she included are:

Así es la Vida en el Trópico (Such is Life in The Tropics)

Así es la Vida en el Trópico ("Such is the Life in The Tropics") is a series of instructional videos including one small sculpture in which Kairé demonstrates how to create weapons out of various tropical produce.[3] The sculpture is a ninja star-like weapon made out of paper and acrylic paint to make it look like a banana.

The first video in the series shows the audience how to make nunchucks using two bananas and banana leaves to bind them together. In the second video, Kairé shows how to make mace using cassava and a horned melon. She begins by making a hole on the bottom of the horned melon in which she then inserts the cassava. In the third video, she shows how to make a slingshot using rubber bands, banana peels, and orange peels. The rubber bands are tied to the orange peels and the banana peels; the objects are placed in the orange peel. This piece was another response to the violence in Guatemala.

Oy!

Oy! is a performance art piece in which Kairé sits on a chair and attempts to place as many Kippots as possible on her head. She uses this piece to express her Jewish background.

Shiva

Shiva is a series of installations in which Kairé puts a white fabric over various mirrors with a plaque underneath telling passers by not to look at themselves in the mirror.

Can You Hear Me?

Can You Hear Me? is a performance piece in which the audience has a video call with someone in a different location through Skype. During the call, participants share the same meal that the people on the other side of the screen are eating.

Tastings

Tastings are a series of installations in which she creates casts of the architecture surrounding the area and then uses the cast to mold edible things such as bread and chocolate.

Exhibitions

NuMu[4] The Nuevo Museo De Arte Contemporáneo (NuMu) is an egg-shaped kiosk repurposed by both Kairé and Stefan Benchoam that has been turned into a small museum that displays contemporary artworks in Guatemala City. The kiosk was used to sell eggs by its previous owner until Kairé rented it. NuMu was created to combat Guatemala's lack of contemporary art exhibitions.

Group Exhibitions
  • Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San Jose, Costa Rica 2006
  • Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Guatemala City, Guatemala 2009
  • Galería 9.99/proyecto, Guatemala City, Guatemala 2009
  • Museo de Arte Moderno, Guatemala City, Guatemala 2009
  • Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española, Antigua, Guatemala 2009
  • 92Y Tribeca, New York 2010
  • DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, New York 2010
  • Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City, Guatemala 2010
  • Proyectos Sauna, Bogotá, Colombia 2010
  • El Museo Del Barrio, Harlem, New York 2011
  • Proyectos Diablo Rosso, Panama City, Panama 2011
  • Galería Kilometro Cero, Guatemala City, Guatemala 2011
  • MDE11, Medellín, Colombia 2011
  • Art Bus, New York, New York 2012
  • XVIII Paiz Art Biennial, Guatemala City, Guatemala 2012
  • Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala City, Guatemala 2012
  • Christinger de Mayo Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland 2012
  • NurtureArt, Brooklyn, New York 2012
  • Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, New York 2012
  • Kamín, Comalapa, Guatemala 2012
  • Panoply Performance Lab, Brooklyn, New York 2013
  • IV Soldiers Gallery, Brooklyn, New York 2013
  • TEOR/etica, San José, Costa Rica 2013
  • Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival, Glasshouse, Brooklyn, New York 2013
  • Nevada Museum of Art, Nevada 2013
  • Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San Jose, Costa Rica 2013
  • Centro Cultural de España, Guatemala City, Guatemala 2013
  • Sol del Río, Guatemala City, Guatemala 2013
  • Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San Jose, Costa Rica 2013
  • Espacio S1, Guatemala City, Guatemala 2014
  • Concepción 41, Antigua, Guatemala 2014
  • Espacio S1, Guatemala City, Guatemala 2014
  • Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center, Washington DC 2014
  • El Museo del Barrio, New York 2014
  • Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City, Guatemala 2015
  • Parsons The New School for Design, New York 2015
  • Ciudad Imaginación, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala 2015
  • 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, California 2016
  • 2da Gran Bienal Tropical, Loíza, Puerto Rico 2016
  • Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York 2017
  • Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB), California 2017
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles 2017
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 2017
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles 2017
  • Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, California 2017
  • curated section at Salon ACME, Mexico City, Mexico 2018
  • Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France 2018
  • SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2018
  • Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York City, New York 2018

Solo Exhibitions
  • Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala 2008
  • Plato's Cave at EIDIA, Brooklyn, New York 2015

References
  1. "Collaborators". Independent Curators International. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  2. "Jessica Kairé Art Works". Mutual Art. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  3. "Art Works". JessicaKairé. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  4. Zara, Janelle. "Art over easy: Guatemalan avant garde arrives in LA disguised as an egg". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
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