Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/10/2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
Soft Water Gallery
Categories
Jaffe’s Un Vie series explores themes of strength, identity, and transformation, celebrating women’s experiences and their cultural evolution.
A recent transplant to Florida from New Mexico, Salome Ali Jaffe is an acid painter and installation artist. An alumna of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Jaffe recently completed a three-month residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI). Her work explores themes of identity, resilience, and transformation through the treatment of metals with acid-induced processes, using material manipulation to reflect the adaptability and strength required to navigate life’s challenges.
Jaffe’s solo exhibition Une Vie was featured in Southwest Contemporary magazine. Jaffe also presented at the inaugural NMC Artist Registry Exhibition at Turner Carroll Gallery in March 2025, alongside other prominent New Mexico artists.
The artwork pictured, entitled More Self-Love, explores the tension between personal empowerment and societal expectation, revealing how acts of self-care are often miscast as defiance. Vibrant patterns and acid painting’s volatility mirror the emotional complexity of asserting self-worth. Cactus motifs symbolize resilience, underscoring the courage required to prioritize well-being and calling for a broader, more compassionate view of self-love.