
Charlie James Gallery is proud to current Elmer Guevara: Yesterday like as we speak / Ayer cómo hoy, the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. On this new physique of labor, Guevara explores concepts of intergenerational reminiscence and trauma, reflecting on his family’s expertise of civil warfare and unrest throughout time and area. The work meditate on the 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion, which tore via South Central close to the place the Guevara household settled after fleeing violence in El Salvador. Time folds in on itself in these work, layering the civil warfare, which predated the artist’s delivery, on high of the chaotic experiences of 1992, whereas additionally gesturing to the pure disasters and political unrest of the current second. Regardless of his…



