The gallery _VIGILGONZALES Buenos Aires is presenting Ardor perla, the first solo exhibition by artist Germán Sandoval in its Buenos Aires space. The show opened to the public on September 26 and will remain on view until October 31, Wednesday to Friday, from 3:00 to 7:00 pm, at Av. Presidente Roque Sáenz Peña 628, 4th Floor, Buenos Aires.
Ardor perla unfolds from an improbable hypothesis: that tear gas could induce hallucinations. Drawing from medical fragments, testimonies, and scattered documents, the exhibition builds a poetic archive where wounded vision becomes a source of images. Paintings and reimagined voices evoke injured bodies, chemical clouds, and eyes transformed into surfaces of inscription.
Rather than a scientific claim, the project operates as an artistic device that reveals how, under extreme conditions, perception shifts toward delirium, and how within those deviations arises the possibility to reinscribe memory and reconsider the distance between violence, exile, and critical gaze.
About the artist
Germán Sandoval (Venezuela, 1984) has lived and worked in Buenos Aires since 2011. He holds a degree in Fine Arts with specializations in Printmaking and Sculpture from the Instituto Universitario de Estudios Superiores de Artes Plásticas Armando Reverón (UNEARTE) in Caracas and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Criminology and Citizen Security at UNTREF (Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero).
His career includes numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Venezuela and Argentina, as well as internationally. Highlights include POSO at Galería Atocha; El Laboratorio Clandestino como una de las Bellas Artes at Fundación El Mirador; Plataforma at La Ira de Dios; Alto Contraste at the Museo de la Estampa y del Diseño Carlos Cruz-Diez in Caracas; the XIV Biennial of Graphic Miniatures Luisa Palacios in Caracas; Cruces y Desvíos at Galería Arte x Arte in Buenos Aires; and participation in the Fundación Williams Young Art Award in the Sculpture category.
In 2015 he received an Honorable Mention at the First Quimera Prize for Art and Political Reflection. He has also been selected for residencies at URRA and La Ira de Dios in Argentina, as well as for the Marabunta studio visits program.
Ardor perla marks a significant milestone in Sandoval’s practice, consolidating his research into the intersections of memory, violence, and visual representation.
On the cover: Installation view of Ardor Perla: Germán Sandoval, _VIGILGONZALES Buenos Aires (2025).
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