Art Düsseldorf • 17.–19. April 2026 • Preview
For Art Düsseldorf, Soy Capitán is pleased to present new and recent works by Talisa Lallai, Paloma Proudfoot, and Grace Weaver – photography, ceramic sculpture, and works on paper. Under the thematic focus Cosmic Feel, all three positions explore how inner states manifest in images, bodies, and materials.
Talisa Lallai (1989, Frankfurt am Main) lives in Düsseldorf and studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In her photographic practice, she investigates how images shape our understanding of the world – and how fragile that understanding is. Historical sources, imagined landscapes, and constructed notions of „elsewhere“ layer over one another in her compositions until their apparent certainty begins to crumble. What remains are images that hover between memory and projection, holding open questions of identity, origin, and the idealization of the foreign. Her works are held in collections including the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, DZ Bank, and DEKA Bank.
Paloma Proudfoot (1992, London) studied at the Royal College of Art in London and lives and works in London. Her practice brings together sculpture, textile, and performance, drawing on the gendered history of medical anatomical models, mannequins, and tailoring traditions. The starting point for her works is the principle of pattern cutting: paper templates are translated into materials such as ceramics, glass, metal, or textile. The results are forms that hold bodily tension – compressions and ruptures in which vulnerability and resilience become equally palpable. In 2024 Proudfoot‘s work was shown in a solo exhibition at The Lowry in Manchester; her work Gardening (2024) is part of the collection exhibition The Way We Are at Weserburg Bremen, and her solo exhibition titled Glass Delusion is currently on view at Collective in Edinburgh.
Grace Weaver (1989, Vermont) lives and works in Berlin and New York. She studied at Virginia Commonwealth University. In her paintings and works on paper, she engages with the female figure – with posture, line, and gesture as primary means of expression. Her figures move between archetype and everyday life, between bodily intimacy and mythic charge. Femininity appears here not as a thematic category but as a formal one: a question of volume, movement, and presence within the pictorial space. Weaver‘s works are held in collections including the Städel Museum, Frankfurt; Kunstpalast Düsseldorf; Yuz Museum, Shanghai and ARoS Museum. Her solo exhibition titled Prélude is currently on view at the Kunstmuseum Magdeburg.