“Lorenzo Sandoval’s first exhibition with Lehmann + Silva has a lot to do with abstraction — in an economic, aesthetic, and material sense. Picking up on the histories of industrial lace-making in the 19th century as well as the links between textile manufacture and early computer technology, Sandoval is interested in the ubiquitous present-day consequences of these two historical phenomena.

Global industrialisation and the automation of labour on the one hand, and the digitalisation of the social sphere on the other have engendered the new era common to us: we work, interact, and define ourselves within its terms.

By way of his own gestures of abstraction (applied to sculpture, photography, painting, and performance), Sandoval’s first gallery exhibition Shadow Writing (Lace/Variations) entangles these histories of economy, technology, fashion, science, and art. The Lace Heritage group in Nottingham, England, and its collection of intricate ornamental lace — designed and produced in the town and exported worldwide at the height of the Victorian Empire — provide the backdrop for Sandoval’s project. ”

EVA WILSON
Excerpt of the exhibition text