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
Chalk Improvisation on Rooftop, Documental Record—Stage 3, Hypothetical Relations Series
Balteo-Yazbeck, Alessandro
1994
Digital print on aluminum panel, from a 35mm 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
