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Peres Projects is pleased to announce Portraits, the first solo exhibition by Manuel Solano at the gallery.

The work of the Mexico-born artist finds spaces of ambiguity and duality for identity. Their practice, predominantly in portraiture, inserts and interprets the artist into depictions of characters from popular culture or figures from their childhood in order to explore the messiness and proximity of culture and selfhood.

For the exhibition, the artist has created a series of new works that continue their engagement with problems of identity and subjecthood. Solano has been working with …