Assemblage #45 – Primer aviso, proposed by Dayneris Brito and presented at Julio Artist Run Space, brings together Manoela Medeiros, Vir Andres Hera, and Omar Castillo Alfaro to issue a collective warning: P-R-I-M-E-R A-V-I-S-O (first warning); a collective gunshot.

The exhibition seeks to counter inherited Western perspectives through practices of reconciliation between the marginalized subject and art itself, asserting autonomy through the use of one’s own voice. The title evokes a collective language shaped by Latin American women reclaiming their place in history from positions of marginality and exile, condensed here into aesthetic forms understood as bodies: mobile, trans, multiform, and transborder.

Within this framework, Vir Andres Hera presented Ignacia, a work developed in 2014 and activated for the first time in Paris. The piece draws on religious portraiture, specifically images of cloistered nuns, Baroque and mortuary portrait traditions, and devotional iconography. Through these references, Ignacia examines regimes of visibility, enclosure, and sanctification, unsettling the boundaries between sacred image, gendered body, and historical narrative.

The reactivation of Ignacia in Paris extends the temporal and geographical trajectory of the work. The piece belongs to the collection of the Casa de Velázquez, an institution where both Vir Andres Hera and Omar Castillo Alfaro were artist members. Shown at Julio, Ignacia extrapolates their inscription within a francophone context, reconnecting an early investigation to contemporary questions of exile, transmission, and situated memory.