N.A.S.A.L. is presenting Divine Simulacra, Joaquin Stacey-Calle first solo exhibtion, curated by Luis Ernique Zela-Koort.
Joaquín Stacey-Calle (Quito, Ecuador, 2000) is an interdisciplinary artist working across painting, performance, installation, photography, and food-based processes. He holds a BFA from Florida International University and an MFA from Otis College of Art and Design.
His practice draws on memory, identity, and daily ritual, exploring how cultural environments—Ecuador, Miami, Los Angeles—shape perception and material experience. Fermentation, digestion, and transformation serve as metaphors for diasporic life, where images and forms remain unfixed, shifting between clarity and confusion.
Stacey-Calle has exhibited in Miami and Los Angeles at spaces including Charlie James Gallery, Goodmother Gallery, The Proxy Gallery, The Laundromat Art Space, and Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, as well as Ateliê Alê in São Paulo and the Ecuadorian Consulate in Miami. He participated in the 2022 and 2023 Summer Open residency at the Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami.
" (...) Exploring extended modes of painting, for this show the artist crafts scenes that are ambiguously ceremonial and intimate, transposing the divine and the everyday. As a metaphysical exercise and intimate stance before life: nothing exists isolated from the divine or nature, so any representation is incomplete and must be recognized as such. Omitting parts of the image, leaving the surface exposed, or working on porous and permeable material, Stacey-Calle’s installative and pictoric project invites permeable relationships with the world—perceptions that break away from hermetic and normative narratives to allow for new realizations and desires. (...) "
Exhibition text by Luis Enrique Zela-Koort