Downtown, Los Angeles
Estefania Puerta
Horse to Water
MurmursMurmurs is pleased to present Horse to Water, a solo exhibition in the main gallery, by Estefania Puerta. Works in Horse to Water span sculpture, installation, video, painting, and drawing, considering structures and containers not as static objects but as charged, liminal sites—purgatories where life, death, past, and futurity remain in flux within imposed frameworks. These forms reflect ancient vessels—tombs, wombs, reliquaries—while simultaneously exploring speculative, fictionalized futures of generation. Each is an expression of potential, where purpose and desire transcend corporeal boundaries. Estefania Puerta was recently awarded the 2024 Philip Guston Rome Prize. Her work has been recently exhibited at The Aldrich Museum, The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Nina Johnson Gallery, Palazzo Esposizioni Roma, Lyles and King, and Micki Meng Gallery. She was included in the New England Triennial at DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in 2022. Puerta received her MFA from Yale School of Art in 2018. She was born in Colombia and currently lives and works between Vermont and New York.