The Heong Gallery at Downing College, Cambridge, is pleased to present Revealing (In)visible Times, a two-person exhibition featuring Brazilian-born artist Alexandre da Cunha and Chilean artist Francisca Aninat, curated by Valentina Gajardo. Through installation, textiles, and reconfigured found objects, the exhibition explores the experience of waiting, inertia, and overlooked durations in the daily lives of often unseen or transient communities.
At the heart of Revealing (In)visible Times is a shared inquiry into how time materialises – how it can linger in the fibres of everyday objects and places, from hospital waiting rooms to cleaning equipment. The physical hosts of ‘lost’ passages of time are transformed into artworks that foreground hidden narratives of care, displacement, and labour.
About Alexandre da Cunha
Alexandre da Cunha (b.1969) is a Brazilian-born artist who lives and works in São Paulo and London. He has referred to his practice as ‘pointing’ as opposed to ‘making’. By ‘pointing’ at existing objects in plain sight, da Cunha highlights new and unexpected meanings within the objects he chooses. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held in São Paulo, Naples, London, Brighton and Chicago. Major public and outdoor sculptures by da Cunha are on permanent view at Battersea Power Station Underground Station in London, the Monsoon Building in London, the Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis USA, Pierce Boston Tower in Boston USA and the Rochaverá Tower in São Paulo, Brazil.
About Francisca Aninat
Francisca Aninat (b.1979) lives and works in London. Using different materials, her interest relies in generating a connection between artistic processes and the narratives of everyday life. Her work is part of the Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Femsa collection, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chile, MOMA archives and The Roberts Institute of Art, among others. She has received the National Chilean Fund for Culture and the Arts, the Chilean Academic Excellence Scholarship for studies abroad and the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Grants and Commissions Program. Her recent projects include the participation in the 4th Polygraphic Triennial of San Juan, Latin America and the Caribbean, the 22nd Paiz Biennial in Guatemala and the Casa Wabi Foundation in Mexico. She has recently published with Editorial Ikrek, Ediciones Tácitas, D21 Editores and Letras Libres magazine.
About the Curator
Valentina Gajardo is an art historian and curator. Her work centres on bringing visibility to overlooked symptoms and contemporary practices from Latin America, exploring thread narratives present in art production since the return to democracy, weaving artwork into the latent stories that remain in silence. She has been an invited speaker at the Women’s Art Collection Conference at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, and is currently writing her upcoming book, Thread Stories (Ediciones Metales Pesados).
