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CON TODO EL CORAZÓN

JEFFLY GABRIELA MOLINA / BRAD STUMPF

2 Nov - 9 Dec 2024

With All My Heart explores the notion and idea of home, relationships, rituals and family, inviting the viewer to think about one’s roots, love and the experiences that shape both life and identity. Often romantic, sometimes joyful, and frequently melancholic, the works on show journey through moments of great happiness, uncertainty and even grief. Evocative of a life lived with one’s heart on their sleeve, Jeffly Gabriela Molina and Brad Stumpf’s paintings perform a quiet and enchanting contemplation of the everyday. Engaging the audience in the intimate moments of the life they share, the quotidian becomes the substance of dreams.

ÍDOLOS TRAS LOS ALTARES

ONLINE EXHIBITION

30 Oct - 25 Jan 2025

Anita Brenner’s Idols Behind Altars (1929) sought to tell a story of transculturation and syncretism by way of exploring the use of signs and symbols to communicate both the obvious and hidden meanings that came about through a melding of cultures. Speaking to issues like amalgamations of belief systems and cultural interchange that are still relevant today, these ideas create a conceptual backdrop that informs the practices of contemporary artists who share a vested interest in questioning and upending meaning through the use of colours, figures or objects meant to convey one thing and yet evocative of another. Focused on the aesthetic qualities of objects—both ritualistic and quotidian—and the characteristics of evocative symbols, the artists in this edition bring ritual, belief, mysticism, origin stories and contemporary culture together in works that depict or reference the idols that are behind or veiled by the sign or symbol. Ethereal and primal, these layered works create windows through which one can glimpse both what is hidden and what is revealed.

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PAULA TURMINA

TERRENOS MALEABLES

17 Sep - 19 Oct 2024

Unsettling and mesmerizing landscapes that seem familiar yet at times otherworldly envelop one’s body through a play with scale, a multiplicity of thin layers, and a series of symbiotic dynamics. Ambiguous and fluid, like the genderless figures or elongated representations of autonomous body parts within them, Paula Turmina’s (Brazil, 1991) paintings lean towards transportive experiences of and with the landscape by evoking bodily connections to the same. Bodies become part of their environment by mimicking the world around them and vice versa —a head a mountain, a set of legs a valley— with anatomies blending together. Rooted, expanding, and metaphorically elastic, the figures within the work morph, meld and propose new possibilities. Limbs and hair imitate natural growth, while other elements sink into the cracked and tremulous terrain around them. Amongst these unfolding scenarios, an almost imperceptible trail of ants act as agents of resistance by uniting surface to underground. From this perspective, engaging with painting as an expanded field and evoking processes of connection and restoration.

SEBASTIÁN HIDALGO

PARTÍCULAS

21 May - 29 June 2024

Including a variety of works on canvas and paper by the Mexico-born and based artist, this engaging exhibition comprises Hidalgo’s most recent production and functions as a culmination of the artist’s 10+ year career. Known for exploring psychedelia, dreams and contemplation, Hidalgo brings together anthropology, cartoons, archaic art, sci-fi and mysticism in his practice.

The exhibition is primarily concerned with exploring the connections between the individual and the collective. Employing visuals sourced from his everyday life and using vehicles —moving collectively through the streets but containing individuals— as metaphors, Hidalgo seeks to reconcile the internal world with the external experience. Depicting shapes morphing and turning into other forms until they become dematerialized he presents particles as the unifying agent of our experience.

NATURE HOLDS A MIRROR

25 May - 15 Sep 2023

Nature Holds a Mirror brings together the work of eighteen contemporary artists from around the world who examine the ways in which human-centric systems can be questioned and transcended. The artists within the exhibition engage with a range of pictorial and sculptural approaches responding to the natural world, along with physical, fictional and psychological landscapes.
The exhibition includes depictions of biomorphic, seductive and contemplative ecosystems that through abstraction and figuration embody and coexist amongst themselves with a range of beings– animalistic, female, male, biological, queer, and organic bodies that embrace the changeability and fluidity within states of matter in relation to nature and identity.

The exhibition includes works by Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh, Alexandra Levasseur, Almendra Bertoni, Annie Brito Hodgin, Armig Santos, Ellen Siebers, J. Carino, James Watkins, Joanna van Son, Kora Moya Rojo, Maddalena Tesser, Maria Andrievskaya, Maria Conejo, Paula Turmina, Rosalind Howdle, Sebastián Hidalgo, Sofie Svejdova, Theresa Daddezio and Yoab Vera.

JAMES WATKINS

FUTURE PARADISE

6 May - 1 Jul 2023

Presented by Ambar Quijano at Casa Astrónoma, Future Paradise is James Watkins’ debut solo show in Mexico. Imbued with a reverence for the natural world, his new home in Latin America and the art of ancient civilisations, this latest body of work is rich with fauna, flora and fingerprints where seed-spreading hands meet celestial bodies and metaphorical offerings of plenty. These symbols of abundance all float in dialogue with bodily elements in constant flux, resulting in visual ecosystems hinting at the interconnected foundations of our reality.

Returning to the same surface over extended periods of time: scraping, sanding, abandoning, adding and subtracting allows the disclosure of subtle variations where the surface develops unique histories and unpredictable interactions. With traces from the past still visible in the present, Watkins exposes previous versions of the paintings and himself, with his work taking on an archaeological attitude, both to the surface of his paintings and his subconscious.

NATURE HOLDS A MIRROR(EXPANDED)

4 Feb - 4 March 2023

Nature Holds a Mirror (expanded) exists as a physical extension of our upcoming online show Nature Holds a Mirror. The exhibition is presented in our new Mexico City space Casa Astrónoma, which is open to the public. We are showing a number of works included in our upcoming online iteration, as well as works by Mexico-based artists that we are exclusively exhibiting in person during Mexico City’s art week.

This exhibition brings together the work of eleven contemporary artists from around the world who examine the ways in which human-centric systems can be questioned and transcended. The artists within the exhibition engage with a range of pictorial and sculptural approaches responding to the natural world, along with physical, fictional and psychological landscapes.

The exhibition includes works by Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh, Ángela Ferrari, Isabella Russo Siqueira, James Watkins, Kora Moya Rojo, Koshiro Akiyama, Maria Conejo, Santiago Valdes, Sebastián Hidalgo, Trubaik and Yoab Vera.

LIQUID FRICTIONS

25 May - 25 Sep 2022

Liquid Frictions rings together the work of 15 artists from around the world who draw and extract from a myriad of present conditions and histories. Liquid Frictions is a digital experience that looks both backwards and forwards, providing a stimulating environment for a collection of paintings reflecting on the factors that are continuously shaping our personal and collective understanding of how we live in the parameters of history, and how that has informed the creation of our contemporary narratives. Hand in hand, the exhibition deals with what it means to engage with painting today, together with the idea of painting as an inquiry tool, a set of questions, a means of sampling from the world around us, as well as a vehicle from which many realities and dimensions can be experienced.