Gabriel Chaile’s work is grounded in ancestry, architecture, and ritual. At Tinworks, he reconstructs Ella vendrá a pagarle todo(She will come to pay him for everything), an adobe sculpture first presented at BAMPFA in the exhibition MATRIX 283. Towering and symbolic, the vessel draws from familial memory and Indigenous ceramic traditions, transforming earth into a sacred form—part monument, part offering.

Alongside this sculptural work, Chaile will create a new communal adobe oven that invites the public to gather, bake, and share. Activated monthly throughout the exhibition season, the oven bridges individual memory and collective ritual, linking Chaile’s practice with environmental legacies, including Agnes Denes’s Wheatfield, from which the flour for baking is sourced. Together, these works explore the poetic and political potential of shared nourishment, ancestral knowledge, and clay as a living medium.

For its 2025 exhibition season, Tinworks Art presents A Kin to Clay, an exhibition that honors the rich legacy of ceramics in Montana while tracing its connections to broader histories and cultural lineages. Through the work of artists who engage clay and earthen materials as vessels of memory, resistance, and community, the exhibition explores how a shared relationship to the earth can shape meaning across generations and geographies.

Argentinian artist Gabriel Chaile is known for his monumental adobe sculptures that draw on Indigenous ceramic traditions, religious iconography, and family ancestry. His works evoke shared rituals and histories, transforming humble materials into powerful vessels of memory and meaning. Chaile has exhibited extensively around the world. His work has been the subject of solo and two-artist presentations at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, Portugal; the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina; the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Fondo Nacional de las Artes; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Nuevo Museo Energía de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina. His large-scale, public work The Wind Blows Where it Wishes was presented on the High Line in New York in 2023. Chaile’s work was included in the Venice Biennale and the Coimbra Biennial of Contemporary Art in 2022 and the New Museum Triennial in 2021.