Griselda Rosas: Veni, Vidi, Vici (OPENING RECEPTION)
(EXHIBIT THROUGH FEB. 28) Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is pleased to announce Griselda Rosas: Veni, Vidi, Vici, on view from January 10 through February 28, 2026. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery and follows her inclusion in the 2025 California Biennial at the UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, January 10, 2026, from 4:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Griselda Rosas’s exhibition, Veni, Vidi, Vici, presents multidisciplinary works that resist binaries, inviting viewers into layered allegories, histories, and personal experiences. Using a wide range of materials—faux ostrich skin, embroidered silhouettes, grain-sacks, domestic textiles, and large-scale, charcoal works on paper—she highlights the tensions between play, intimacy, and the narratives we inherit. The exhibition’s title, “Veni, Vidi, Vici,” meaning “I came, I saw, I conquered,” adapts the historic Latin phrase to recall both its military origins and its contemporary use as a declaration of individual triumph, prompting a reflection on histories of domination and the enduring influence of victory-driven language in shaping culture and identity.
Inherited memory, themes of nurture and intergenerational exchange emerge through Rosas’ response to her young son Fermamdo's drawings. Rosas enlarges and transforms these sketches into monumental, often monstrous, mixed media or charcoal renderings—a process that echoes the distortions and shifts in perspective that shape stories of war as they are retold across generations. As a single parent and cross-border commuter, she extends this inquiry by examining gendered expectations and the culture of warfare embedded in toys marketed along rigid gender lines, revealing how commercial design naturalizes militarized play and scripts early performances of masculinity. Her ongoing research, spanning precolonial toys to contemporary political tensions and liminal border spaces, underscores the persistent entanglement of conflict, storytelling, and the materials of childhood.
