Beginning July 9th through August 6th, 2022, FJKluth Art Gallery will be presenting two photographic series by Ecuadorian artist, Verónica Lombeida Saltos, titled Verónica Lombeida Saltos: Magic House & Universes.

Magic House is about how Saltos’ house is part of their identity, presenting it as “a house full of people, spaces full of flowers with light, smells of life.” She states, “it is a series in which I represent what this magical place means to me, my experience with that house. The same meeting with the space and with myself, it is a way I find to say thanks and bye to this place.”

The photographic series Universes is where one discovers “voices, faces, and spaces around the world in a virtual journey.” After the pandemic invaded the world, people had to find their own way to live and feel Covid by “expressing their inner and outer self in the different corners of the planet.” This approach allowed Saltos to “meet beautiful people who have revealed a little bit of their universes, allowing me to go to the special place of their home.”

Saltos was born in Guaranda, Ecuador. She studied Photography Design at Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano de Diseño, La Metro / Quito, Ecuador, and attended workshops in Argentina and Chile. Her work invokes the usage of textures, colors, and smells where they can produce sensorial images. Social issues such as mental health and environmental problems are employed in a conceptual and fashionable approach in her work, as well. Past exhibitions Saltos has been in were Premio Brazil at Centro de Arte Contemporáneo (Quito, Ecuador), New Starts at Foorumi Gallery (Knokke, Belgium), Global Images – Global Cris at International Center of Photography (New York City, New York).

Verónica Lombeida Saltos: Magic House & Universes will open on Saturday, July 9th, 2022. The exhibition will be on display through Saturday, August 6th, 2022 at FJKluth Art Gallery located at 300 North Water St. Suite I in Kent, Ohio 44240. The exhibition is free and open to the public.