Solange Pessoa’s “Catch the Sun with Your Hand” Illuminates Aspen Art Museum
Running from July 2 to October 19, 2025, Catch the Sun with Your Hand invites visitors to experience art as an elemental force. Pessoa’s work, anchored in ceramics, earth, and mineral, reflects a deep dialogue between human craft and natural transformation. The exhibition unfolds across several immersive installations that evoke ancient rituals, feminine creation, and the rhythmic cycles of life itself.
Key Points
• Curated by Claude Adjil, the exhibition embodies Aspen’s devotion to authenticity and elemental beauty.
• Featured works like Florasceas (2019) and Delíria Deveras (2021–24) blend raw earth materials, crystals, and metals to explore timeless spiritual themes.
• The installation Bags - Aspen Version (1994–2025) incorporates locally sourced minerals and herbs, linking the work to Aspen’s landscape and history.
• On the rooftop, NIHL NOVI SUB SOLE (2019–21) invites quiet reflection amid Aspen’s panoramic mountain views.
Pessoa’s exhibition redefines what endures in art, favoring depth, nature, and transformation over spectacle. In Aspen, her work feels perfectly at home: timeless, tactile, and radiant beneath the mountain sun.
By: Killian Wright-Jackson | Brooklyn Rail | September 2025
Photo: Courtesy Aspen Art Museum | Photo: Paul Salveson