Southern Flaneur

About

*The exhibition, which formally launches on the afternoon of 25th February 2024 at Paladar Restaurant brings an insight of Tere Chad’s creative practice to your dining table. 

What is the artist’s source of inspiration? This is a question that art critics, collectors and art lovers in general may wonder about when viewing an artwork. Tere Chad’s versatile practice is a response to her observations of everyday life. As someone who cycles more than 40 miles per week in London, she relates to the way Walter Benjamin (1892 – 1940) describes Charles Baudelaire’s creative process as an act of flâneur strolling through the city.  Instead of writing poems inspired by the 19th Century streets of Paris, Tere Chad has found London to be a cultural hub that has opened her doors to working across the world. Her work involves recycling, community engagement, Latin American empowerment and critical thinking over the impact of new technologies.

‘Southern Flâneur’ includes a series of photographs of her installations, performances and participatory artworks in London, Sicily, Mexico, Northern Ireland and Southern Spain. A strong body of work that has set up the path for her upcoming first big institutional international show: Neo Norte 5.0, to be presented at the Memorial da América Latina in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (2024 – 2025).

Neo Norte is an artistic research project that she started while studying at Central Saint Martins (2016 – 2018) and later kept on developing while studying at the Royal College of Art (2018 – 2020). Neo Norte is inspired in the Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres García (1874 – 1949) to suggest the South to become the New North. After having the experience of working in 14 different countries in the Southern and Northern hemisphere, she is deeply committed to inviting citizens of the global South onwards embracing the cultural values they provide to the rest of the world.  She believes the way culture of the South connect to nature, can offer solutions to face Climate Change and many of the 21st Century’s challenges.

Paladar Restaurant has long been an advocate and supporter of Tere Chad as an artist. Now, five years after her first exhibition in the restaurant (Jan-Feb 2019), Paladar has invited her back to showcase a compilation of her recent work. This includes a selection of her sculptures, oil paintings, and prints of her series “Calling Back” commemorating the centenary of  the first Telephone Box designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (a series which has been partly acquired by the Nelimarkka-Foundation in Finland).

The exhibition will also include her permanent installation ‘Our Lady of Charity’ which was commissioned by Paladar in 2021 and is on permanent display in the restaurant’s delightful courtyard garden.

During the course of the exhibition, Tere Chad will host a number of public events to celebrate Latin America’s cultural richness, which you are more than welcome to join.

VENUE: Paladar Restaurant 4-5 London Rd, London SE1 6JZ (Closest stations: Elephant & Castle (Bakerloo & Northern); Southwark (Jubilee) and Waterloo (National Rail, Bakerloo, Northern, Jubilee)

PUBLIC EVENTS PROGRAMME:

Exhibition: 20th February – 23rd June 2024

Opening times: Mon 5.00pm – 9.00pm, Tues – Fri 12noon – 2.45 & 5.00 – 9.45pm, Sat 12.30 – 10.00pm, Sun 12.30 – 8.00pm

Private View: Sun 25th February 3.00pm – 6.00pm

Collectors Guided Tour: Fri 8th March 10.30am – 1.30pm / Celebrating Latin women in women’s day

Latin-American Poetry Reading: Tues 26th March 6.00 – 8.00pm / Tere Chad and other Latin American poets will present their poems to the wider community

Chilean Wine Drawing & Tasting: Tues 23rd April 6.00 – 8.00pm / To celebrate St George’s day, participants will visit St. George Circus and later ‘Our Lady of Charity’ to reflect upon the imagery of patrons in the UK and Latin America through ink and wine drawing with wines produced by Tere Chad’s family in Chile. / Ticketed event

Chilean Day: Tues 21st May 6.00pm – 8.00pm / To commemorate ‘The. Day of Naval Glories’ in Chile, Paladar will offer a special taster menu with Chilean pisco and wines.

Closing Guided Tour: Fri 31st May 11am – 12:30pm (date tbc)

ABOUT PALADAR RESTAURANT:

More than just a restaurant, Paladar showcases the best of Latin American food, wine, spirits, cocktails and music in the heart of London’s SE1 district.

ABOUT TERE CHAD:

Chilean artist (b.1990) with a general focus on sustainability and promoting Latin American art and culture abroad. Tere Chad graduated in 2020 with an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London, having previously graduated in 2018 with an MA in Art and Science from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. To date she has held seven solo exhibitions, completed seven residencies, participated in more than 50 collective exhibitions and has curated over 20 shows on four different continents. Part of her series ‘Calling Back’ was recently acquired by the Nelimarkka-Foundation, Finland (2021). In 2020 she was granted a Global Talent Visa for Exceptional Promise to enable her to continue developing her practice in the UK, and in 2021 she was accepted as a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors. Her latest projects include: ‘Woven Hug,’ Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart, Northern Ireland, funded by Arts Council England (2023); ‘Are We Sinking?’ selected by way of an open call to the Royal Society of Sculptors for members to exhibit at Thirsk Hall Sculpture Garden, North Yorkshire (2023); ‘Zurciendo Vacíos’ (Mending Voids) a collaborative work with Cordelia Rizzo, the Cultural Lab LABNL Lab Cultural Ciudadano, Cultural Centre Centro Cultural Plaza Fátima, University CRGS UDEM, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico (2023); ‘Platinum Jubilee Collection’, Civic Gallery, Kensington Town Hall, London (2022); a commission for ‘The Coro’, Ulverston, Cumbria (2022); ‘Neo Norte 3.0’ (New North), Myymälä2 Gallery, Helsinki (2021); ‘Phantom_step’, Projectraum Kurt-Kurt, Berlin (2021); ‘Primeiras Vezes’, Na Esquina, Lisbon (2020).

CONTACT:

Info@paladarlondon.com  | +44 020 7186 5555  | @paladarlondon

terechad@hotmail.com  |  www.terechad.com  |  @terechad