Cecilia Caldiera and Nora Normile
VISIBLE LATCH
Opening reception: Friday, May 16th
6-8pm
25 Park Place, Fl, 3, New York, NY 10007
A corner can be a home.
They might call it a straight line but let’s get into it…
Hold a map of this city in your hands, pick it up by any two points—let’s call them a where-you-have-been and where-you-desire-to-be, a me to a you. Forget the roads, forget language, forget even the marks, let this object be just a paper; drooping by the line that connect what you are touching: two universes in zero dimension. Trace it, hold it, be witness, carry it.
There’s a world of errantry that you have already begun; its much older than you and will exist far beyond us. We are in the in-between.
Visible Latch is a gathering full of such moments. Here simple, every day, passed-by objects, acts, spaces, crafts, and materials are carried and recalled to tell their stories: Full of feelings, poetry, stories, and radical possibilities.
I imagine Cecilia Caldiera paving the spaces we share, the public, the streets, the everyday. I like to recall her steps, feeling the vibration of what we have left around and behind. I feel her returning, being with the object, remembering what we attempted—and failed—to forget. I find myself standing in the gallery, witnessing sculpture as care-work for the found, the object. Nora Normile’s playful materiality pulls me in. We are thick in histories that survived despite and beyond language. In the nearly perfect imperfection of her work, I find the artist’s hand. I am reminded of the joy of making, reclaiming the world of ornaments, decoration, marks in their profound lightness. And under their weight, I imagine metal fences and brick walls collapsing. Suddenly, in a world thick with grief, I feel happy.
I recall what Agnes Martin wrote, happiness, “is pervasive.”
Visible Latch is letters written not by the artists but the wisdom of their making. Here is a meeting of stories resonating, activating, holding each other and us in the midst of it all.
-Yasi Alipour
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Nora Normile (b. 1992 New York, NY) makes sculptures that examine domestic architecture and mass production through the motifs of repeating pattern, ornamentation, and decoration using clay and other craft materials. She received a BFA in Studio Art from NYU in 2015 and received a MFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 2023. She currently teaches ceramics at Rutgers and has had two solo exhibitions with Entrance gallery (New York, NY)
Cecilia Caldiera is a New York City–based artist working across sculpture, drawing, and printmaking. Rooted in research around urban planning, waste, and ritual, her practice investigates how these systems choreograph the movements of bodies—both individual and collective—through public space. Her work traces the ways in which space shapes identity, and in turn, how communities imprint themselves back onto the built environment. Cecilia graduated with an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts in 2023. She recently had solo exhibitions at Astor Weeks in 2023 and Subtitled NYC in 2024. Cecilia was a Neiman Center Fellow from 2021-2023, an Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program Fellow for the 2023-2024 session, and a resident at the Hercules Art Studio Program from 2023-2025. She was awarded a grant to attend Anderson Ranch in 2022. Cecilia currently teaches at Pratt Institute and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop.
Viewing by appointment only:
Cecilia.Caldiera@gmail.com or nora.normile@gmail.com
