Greetings from Panama - Ana Elena Garuz at Diablo Rasso

The Panamanian gallery presents Greetings from Panama, an exhibition by Ana Elena Garuz that explores the links between the personal and the systematic. The show opens on May 24, 2025.

In this exhibition, Ana Elena Garuz presents a new series of works based on vintage tourist postcards from Panama—images originally conceived to portray a superficial version of the country—intervened with mixed media through minimal gestures, precise cuts, and subtle layering.

This series dialogues with paintings, drawings, and a sculpture, all sharing a sensitivity toward the fragmentary and the poetic reconfiguration of the everyday. The exhibition proposes an affective visual archaeology in which the intimacy of collage coexists with abstract geometries and sculptural compositions, offering a pause from contemporary visual overload and revealing, in each recovered detail, another way of understanding and inhabiting the world.

Her work begins with fragments of daily life that she classifies and reorganizes with near-systematic precision. Through minimal gestures and modest materials, Garuz creates compositions that reveal subtle connections between the intimate and the structural. What seems trivial is transformed into form, rhythm, and memory. Her approach to pictorial space moves between the two-dimensional and the object-like, revealing a sensibility rooted in abstraction, minimalism, and a poetics of the essential.

Ana Elena Garuz (Panama, 1971) is a visual artist whose practice centers on abstract painting and expands into collage, drawing, and sculpture as means to observe and reconfigure her surroundings. She studied Fine Arts at the Savannah College of Art and Design and earned a Master’s degree in Art with a focus on painting from New York University. Throughout her career, Garuz has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Panama, Latin America, and the United States. She lives and works in Panama City, where she maintains a rigorous practice that turns the everyday into a refined and eloquently quiet visual language.