June 20 - August 1, 2026

Opening Reception & Artist Led Walkthrough: Saturday, June 20, 3-5 PM
Walkthrough begins at 3 PM, reception to follow.

Hannah Sloan Curatorial & Advisory
5613 San Vicente Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90019

Press Release

Hannah Sloan Curatorial & Advisory is pleased to present Lo que queda (What Remains), a solo exhibition of new work by Costa Rican artist Erina Libertad and her debut solo exhibition in the United States. On view June 20–August 1, 2026, the exhibition will be accompanied by an artist walkthrough and opening reception on Saturday, June 20, from 3–5 PM. Developed for the gallery, the exhibition will unfold over several weeks as Libertad constructs a site-specific installation in direct response to the space and its surroundings.

Erina Libertad creates environments that heighten awareness of the body in relation to material, space, and people. Drawing from a background in ballet, theater, choreography, and costume design, her practice foregrounds participation and physical experience, inviting viewers to engage with her work through gesture, touch, and play. Employing video, textiles, photography, and vinyl floor applications, she constructs immersive environments designed for direct, embodied encounter. Echoes of the instructional works of John Cage and Yoko Ono, the playfulness of Dadaism, and choreographic systems of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker can be seen in Libertad’s approach to artmaking as a process of improvisation and exchange.

At the heart of Lo que queda (What Remains) is El Catre, a body of work inspired by a childhood game Libertad learned from her grandmother, now 95 years old. Using strands of wool or twine manipulated through a sequence of hand movements, the game functions simultaneously as a physical exercise and a conceptual framework for thinking about memory, time, and intergenerational knowledge.

For Libertad, the work began as “a failed attempt to stop time”—a way of returning to her grandmother’s history and teachings while considering what is carried forward and what is lost through aging, repetition, and change. While practicing the game together, Libertad found meaning not only in the shifting forms held between their hands, but in the act of play, where patience, care, and attention are required to build something inherently temporary.

“There is much more behind this game: what my grandmother taught me, what remains, and what I still have yet to learn. Sharing her teachings, attempting to immortalize—not her, but the ritual practice of sharing through threads, textiles, teaching, and hands, as we have done for so many generations.”

In the gallery, El Catre shifts from game to formal investigation. Using a sewing machine, Libertad translates the changing patterns created through repeated play into abstract compositions stitched onto velvet, burlap, faux leather, and other textiles. Photography serves as another way of exploring El Catre, as Libertad captures shadows of the game across familiar domestic surfaces including handwoven carpets, house plants, and interior spaces.

The exhibition extends this intergenerational exchange into the gallery, where visitors are invited into a participatory environment that rewards attentiveness, presenting a space to consider how memory is held and transformed through gesture, shared experience, and the body itself.

About the Artist

Erina Libertad (b. 1986, San José, Costa Rica) has worked across theater, ballet, contemporary dance, circus, film, and performance since childhood, while also designing costumes for performing arts and cinema. Since beginning her visual arts practice in 2016, her work has been exhibited at the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo (MADC), Fundación TEOR/éTica, Despacio, and Cero Uno in Costa Rica, as well as Espacio Belgrado in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is co-founder of the artist-run space Cero Uno in Costa Rica, where she continues to organize exhibitions, workshops, and artistic projects.

Press inquiries can be directed to Diana Fitzgibbon at diana@hannahsloan.com.  

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Erina Libertad (b. 1986) moves between performance, dance, installation, choreography, research, and visual arts. She is a costume designer for performing arts, film, and her independent project TAXI. She facilitates movement dynamics that use play as a tool for people to reconnect with creativity, the body, and its possibilities.

Her work is an invitation to rediscover play, embracing its full creative potential, while also acting as a rebellious gesture against a system that thrives on our disconnection, lack of creativity, laughter, and pleasure. The goal is to unlock the doors to the dimension of play and see where it takes us.

Currently, she is part of the team at Cero Uno, an artist-run space located in San José, Costa Rica.

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