Current Aberrations

Exhibition Dates: May 25 - June 22, 2025   

Opening Reception: May 25, 1-3pm

The Ely Center of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce Current Aberrations, a two person exhibition featuring the works of Fethi Meghelli and Fabiana Comas Risquez.

Current Aberrations presents works from Comas Risquez’s Guaricha series along with Meghelli’s sculptures and tapestries featuring the female form. Both artists work with the female figure in a distorted, overlapped but celebrated way.

Guaricha is a term of the Cumanagoto Caribbean ethnic group, used in Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Guaricha means woman, and over time this term has become the colloquial language to signify both prostitute and indomitable woman. In this series, the female body is exposed as an exhausted medium that carries the precariousness of being a woman. Comas Risquez draws high heels, pantyhose, and amorphous bodies, to represent and hold the various layers of meanings about the feminine's vulnerability, sensuality, and power.

Like other series of his, Meghelli’s ‘Tribute to Women’ tapestries show the multiple realities of a woman’s essence simultaneously, with multiple facial features symbolizing the many tasks and roles that a woman plays. The sculptures on display present a rough, primordial expression of the female form as mother and caregiver, evoking pre-colonial art.