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Rivalry is pleased to announce our second solo exhibition with Buffalo-based artist Nando Alvarez Perez: The Dead Hand of the Past. Produced over the course of the last year, the works in the exhibition move away from the stylistically uninflected lighting strategies of "Signs of Autumn" - his last body of work - towards ones reminiscent of Italian horror films and sci-fi neo-noirs. These images are more iconic, more focused on a single object than in his previous body of work. Also included in the images are the materials Alvarez-Perez relies on to point at changing modes of industrial and artistic production over time—steel, marble, computer chips, money—as well as “low” cultural stand-ins for “high” cultural ideas, and, here, rather trickily lit pages from Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, which has been an important intellectual influence of late.
The title for the exhibition is taken from the work of sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson, who writes in The Ministry for the Future, “The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change.”
Join us for the opening reception on Friday, January 16, 2026 from 5:00-9:00pm. The exhibition will be on view from January 16 - February 27, 2026.
Nando Alvarez-Perez, The Dead Hand of the Past, 2025. UV print on aluminum, steel artist frame, hardware, 45 x 30 inches.
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