Jorge Tacla's largest solo exhibition opens at Sharjah Art Foundation

The Sharjah Art Foundation in the United Arab Emirates presents 'Time the Destroyer Is Time the Preserver', the largest solo exhibition ever dedicated to Chilean artist Jorge Tacla (b. 1958). Running until June 21, the show features over 170 works spanning four decades, including paintings, drawings, notebooks, and a large-scale installation. Curated by Hoor Al Qasimi and Abdulla Aljanahi, the exhibition is organized into eight chapters that explore memory, historical violence, and resistance. Tacla's work engages with exile, state violence, war, social protest, and catastrophe, using a 'negative' pictorial technique that blurs abstraction and representation. Key series include 'Body and Violence', 'Remembering the Desert', 'A Geopolitical Triangle', 'Injury Report', 'Anatomy of Dyslexia', 'Hidden Identities', 'Scenes of Protest', and 'Rubble'. The title is taken from a T.S. Eliot verse. Tacla lives between Santiago and New York since 1981.