Current EXHIBITION
1994-95 | Mapping Relations | Balteo-Yazbeck | 2025
Nov 22, 2025—Mar 27, 2026
Durban Segnini Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck with the gallery. This exhibition re-stages and recontextualizes projects conceived in Caracas three decades ago that resonate with our current global situation; tracing the evolution of subjects of material relations, displacement, and systemic interconnection over time.
The exhibition’s title points to a formative period in the artist’s trajectory, when Balteo-Yazbeck began developing strategies to map his own position within a rapidly destabilizing social and political landscape. With his sprawling chalkboard diagrams, rooftop interventions, and large-scale installations—the artist visualized the complex and shifting networks that linked art, politics, and economics in 1990s Venezuela. Balteo-Yazbeck sought not to explicitly narrate but to allude to the invisible webs that shape collective life. Revisiting his early reflections reveals a sustained attention to art’s emotional economies and to traces of meaning that resist commodification and the shifting dynamics of value.
Selected Artworks
Chalkboard Improvisation #2, Panoramic Record—Stage 3, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Hypothetical Relations Series
Balteo-Yazbeck, Alessandro
1994
Digital photomontage printed on aluminum panel, from two 35mm black-and-white negatives.
Temporary Aluminum Installation at the Angostura Congress House, Documental Record #2, Hypothetical Relations Series—Structuring a Country,
Balteo-Yazbeck, Alessandro
1994
Digital print on aluminum panel, from a 60mm black-and-white negative.
Balteo-Yazbeck, Alessandro
Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck is a Venezuelan artist whose multidisciplinary practice intertwines art, research, curatorial methods, and historical analysis into a critical reflection on modernity and its enduring political and cultural consequences. Through photography, film, installation, and found materials, his work explores the complex intersections between aesthetics, power, and ideology. Balteo-Yazbeck investigates the narratives that shape global politics, economy, and culture, exposing how systems of representation have contributed to the dehumanizing effects of modern history
