Scryer in the Archive, 2022 Mercer Union, Toronto

Scryer in the Archive, 2022 Mercer Union, Toronto, installation view

Scryer in the Archive, 2022 Mercer Union, Toronto, detail

Scryer in the Archive, 2022 Mercer Union, Toronto, installation view

Scryer in the Archive, 2022 Mercer Union, Toronto, detail

The Sea as Common Ground (From a Wave Point of View), 2022,
Two-channel video installation, with sound. Screen 1: archive images of the Whitstable Museum documenting the floods of 1897, 1949 and 1953. Screen 2: Narrative script performed at the Whitstable Biennale 2022.

The Sea as Common Ground (From a Wave Point of View), 2022,
Two-channel video installation, with sound. Screen 1: archive images of the Whitstable Museum documenting the floods of 1897, 1949 and 1953. Screen 2: Narrative script performed at the Whitstable Biennale 2022.

The Sea as Common Ground (From a Wave Point of View), 2022,
Still from the live performance and two channel video-installation with images that detail the floods of 1897, 1949 and 1953.

Here is Where We Meet, 2021 Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL, installation view

Here is Where We Meet, 2021 Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL, installation view

Here is Where We Meet, 2021 Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL, installation view

Here is Where We Meet, 2021 Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL, installation view

Here is Where We Meet, 2021 Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL, installation view

Here is Where We Meet, 2021 Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL, installation view

Here is Where We Meet, 2021 Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL, installation view

Here is Where We Meet, 2021
scaffolding construction, inkjet print on Hahnemühle paper, 800 x 500 cm, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL, installation view

Here is Where We Meet, 2021
concrete, inkjetprint on Hahnemühle paper, 12 sculptures, each 28,5 x 23 x 120 cm, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL, installation view

Here is Where We Meet, 2021
concrete, inkjetprint on Hahnemühle paper, 12 sculptures, each 28,5 x 23 x 120 cm, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL, installation view

Here is Where We Meet, 2021
concrete, inkjetprint on Hahnemühle paper, 12 sculptures, each 28,5 x 23 x 120 cm, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL, installation view

Here is Where We Meet, 2021 Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL, installation view

Here is Where We Meet, 2021
tapestrie, jacquard woven textile, metal bar, 160 x 900 cm, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL, installation view

Here is Where We Meet, 2021
tapestrie, jacquard woven textile, metal bar, 160 x 900 cm, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL, installation view

Here is Where We Meet, 2021
tapestrie, jacquard woven textile, metal bar, 160 x 900 cm, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL, detail

Here is Where We Meet, 2021
tapestrie, jacquard woven textile, metal bar, 160 x 900 cm, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL, detail

214322, 2020
inkjetprint on Hahnemühle paper 305 gr/m2, perforated
30 B&W prints and 30 color prints, 39 x 54,5 cm each, overall 200 x 330 cm
edition 1 + 1 A/P

214322, 2020
inkjetprint on Hahnemühle paper 305 gr/m2,
color print, 39 x 54,5 cm, 1 + 1 A/P

214322, 2020
inkjetprint on Hahnemühle paper 305 gr/m2,
color print, 39 x 54,5 cm, 1 + 1 A/P

214322, 2020
inkjetprint on Hahnemühle paper 305 gr/m2,
color print, 39 x 54,5 cm, 1 + 1 A/P

214322, 2020
inkjetprint on Hahnemühle paper 305 gr/m2, perforated
30 B&W prints and 30 color prints, 39 x 54,5 cm each, overall 200 x 330 cm
edition 1 + 1 A/P

214322, 2020
inkjetprint on Hahnemühle paper 305 gr/m2, perforated
color print, 39 x 54,5 cm, 1 + 1 A/P

214322, 2020
inkjetprint on Hahnemühle paper 305 gr/m2, perforated
30 B&W prints and 214322, 2020
inkjetprint on Hahnemühle paper 305 gr/m2, perforated
color print, 39 x 54,5 cm, 1 + 1 A/P

214322, 2020
inkjetprint on Hahnemühle paper 305 gr/m2, perforated
color print, 39 x 54,5 cm, 1 + 1 A/P

214322, 2020
inkjetprint on Hahnemühle paper 305 gr/m2, perforated
B&W print, 39 x 54,5 cm, 1 + 1 A/P

214322, 2020
inkjetprint on Hahnemühle paper 305 gr/m2, perforated
B&W print, 39 x 54,5 cm, 1 + 1 A/P

214322, 2020
inkjetprint on Hahnemühle paper 305 gr/m2, perforated
B&W print, 39 x 54,5 cm, 1 + 1 A/P

214322, 2020
inkjetprint on Hahnemühle paper 305 gr/m2, perforated
30 B&W prints and 30 color prints, 39 x 54,5 cm each, overall 200 x 330 cm
edition 1 + 1 A/P

214322, 2020
inkjetprint on Hahnemühle paper 305 gr/m2, perforated
B&W print, 39 x 54,5 cm, 1 + 1 A/P

214322, 2020
inkjetprint on Hahnemühle paper 305 gr/m2,
B&W print, 39 x 54,5 cm, 1 + 1 A/P

214322, 2020
inkjetprint on Hahnemühle paper 305 gr/m2, perforated
B&W print, 39 x 54,5 cm, 1 + 1 A/P

13 Shots, 2019

3-channel video and sound installation, sculptures, photography and silkscreens,
TENT Rotterdam, NL, Installation view

13 Shots, 2019

3-channel video and sound installation, sculptures, photography and silkscreens,
TENT Rotterdam, NL, Installation view

13 Shots, 2019

3-channel video and sound installation, sculptures, photography and silkscreens,
TENT Rotterdam, NL, Installation view

13 Shots, 2019

3-channel video and sound installation, sculptures, photography and silkscreens,
TENT Rotterdam, NL, Installation view

13 Shots, 2019

3-channel video and sound installation, sculptures, photography and silkscreens,
TENT Rotterdam, NL, Installation view

13 Shots, 2019

3-channel video and sound installation, sculptures, photography and silkscreens,
TENT Rotterdam, NL, Installation view

13 Shots, 2019

3-channel video and sound installation, sculptures, photography and silkscreens,
TENT Rotterdam, NL, Installation view

Imprinted MATER, 2017
Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL, Installation view

Imprinted MATER, 2017
Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL, Installation view

Imprinted MATER, 2017
Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL, Installation view

Imprinted MATER, 2017
Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL, Installation view

Imprinted MATER, 2017
Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL, Installation view

Imprinted MATER, 2017
Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL, Installation view

Imprinted MATER, 2017
Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL, Installation view

Imprinted MATER, 2017
Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL, Installation view

Imprinted MATER, 2017
Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL, Installation view

Imprinted MATER, 2017
Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL, Installation view

Imprinted MATER, 2017
Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL, Installation view

Imprinted MATER, 2017
Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL, Installation view

Imprinted MATER, 2017
Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL, Installation view

A Score for Mother and Child, 2017
four-channel video installation, video still

A Score for Mother and Child, 2017
four-channel video installation, beta cam. analogue film transferred to digital, projection #2, Imprinted MATER, 2017
Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL, Installation view

A Score for Mother and Child, 2017
four-channel video installation, video still

A Score for Mother and Child, 2017
four-channel video installation, beta cam. analogue film transferred to digital, projection #2, Imprinted MATER, 2017
Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL, Installation view

A Score for Mother and Child, 2017
four-channel video installation, video still

A Score for Mother and Child, 2017
four-channel video installation, beta cam. analogue film transferred to digital, projection #2, Imprinted MATER, 2017
Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL, Installation view

A Score for Mother and Child, 2017
four-channel video installation, video still

A Score for Mother and Child, 2017
four-channel video installation, beta cam. analogue film transferred to digital, projection #2, Imprinted MATER, 2017
Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL, Installation view

Ghost Images, 2016
lithography and inkjet print on paper,
series of 5 each, 41 x 57 cm

Ghost Images, 2016
lithography and inkjet print on paper,
series of 5 each, 41 x 57 cm

Ghost Images, 2016
lithography and inkjet print on paper,
series of 5 each, 41 x 57 cm

Ghost Images, 2016
lithography and inkjet print on paper,
series of 5 each, 41 x 57 cm

Ghost Images, 2016
lithography and inkjet print on paper,
series of 5 each, 41 x 57 cm

Untitled (Subversive Body /polaroid negative), 2016
polaroid negative, scanned, digital print on paper, mounted on aluminium, 110 x 160 cm, unique + 2AP

biography

Aimée Zito Lema (1982, Amsterdam, NL) is a Dutch-Argentinean visual artist. Born in Amsterdam and raised in Buenos Aires. Both research-based and intuitive, Zito Lema works with archival material and personal memory. Her projects seek to investigate history as it is passed through generations, and in turn, as a tool to rethink the present. Growing up between Argentina and the Netherlands, Zito Lema is influenced by movements: of the body in space, across geographies; and of the past into the present. In her practice Aimée Zito Lema engages with questions around social memory. By using archives as starting point, and looking at history as ‘raw material’ she constructs works that span from video, photography, sculpture, and performances. She often explores workshop methodologies as a part of her creative process, and creates different constellations from which to re-write, re-imagine or question the past. The relation between memory, body and archive has long been at the core of her territory of experimentation. Questions about social memory and how the body can function as an agent of resistance and a transmitter of knowledge are at stake in her practice. Through her work she intends to reflect on images, events and the way we perceive them, evoking the various manifestations of the past into the contemporary realm of the sensible. Zito Lema lives and works in Amsterdam. 

Aimée Zito Lema holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Universidad Nacional de Artes, Buenos Aires (2003), and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (2007). She completed a Master’s degree at the Koninklijke Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, The Hague (NL, 2009-2011) and she was a  resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (NL, 2015-2016). Her work was shown in numerous international solo  and group exhibitions at a.o. Mercer Union, Toronto (2022, CA); Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable (2022, GB); tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam (2022, NL); Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (2021, AT);  Triennial of Arts of SESC, Sorocaba (2021, BR); Oude Kerk, Amsterdam (2020, 2021, NL);  Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti, Buenos Aires (2020, AR); Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam (2016, 2020, NL); Centro Centro, Madrid (2020, ES); HangZhou Triennial of Fiber Arts, HangZhou (2019, CN); Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (2018, PT); Zmud Projects, Buenos Aires (2018, AR); De Appel Art Centre, Amsterdam (2018, NL); Kunsthalle Mulhouse (2018, FR); Kunsthall Trondheim (2017, NO); MACBA Barcelona (2017, ES); Casco, Utrecht (2014. NL). Works by Aimée Zito Lema are present in international private and public collections.

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gallery exhibitions
May 12 - June 18, 2022
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