Necessary Evil — Adam Cruces

Opening: 31 August 2024, 6 - 9 pm
Exhibition: 4 September 2024 - 26 October 2024

For his second solo exhibition with Blue Velvet, Adam Cruces continues his exploration of human interaction with nature. His new work draws inspiration from rural landscapes—plains, deserts, mountains, as well as swamps and bayous. While each of these environments is unique, they share a rustic quality that evokes both tranquil beauty and severe danger. Necessary Evil delves into the elements associated with these landscapes and their manipulation, transforming the experience into peculiar moments of (self-)reflection.


About the artist:
Adam Cruces, born in 1985 in Houston, TX, graduated in Interdisciplinary Art from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2008, and completed his MFA in Art and Media at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in 2013. Cruces is interested in how we interact with the environment, while incorporating a wide variety of material approaches - painting, sculpture, and video. These elements often culminate in installations that collapse notions of obligation and leisure, nature and domestication, the familiar and the foreign. Cruces has exhibited at Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, CH; Swiss Institute, Milan, IT; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Kunsthaus Langenthal, Langenthal, CH; kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, LV; Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, DK; Museo della Frutta, Turin, IT. He has held residencies at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR; Rupert, Vilnius, LT; Aldea, Bergen, NO; and Cripta747, Turin, IT, and Sing Art Foundation, Le Castellet, FR. Cruces currently lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland.