group show:

al pie de un volcán (at the foot of a volcano)

Tania Ximena, María Sosa, Oscar Santillán, Mano Penalva, Noe Martínez, Lorena Ancona.

Gabriel Alonso, Lorena Ancona, Ramiro Chaves, Débora Delmar, Mario García Torres, Amir Guberstein, Enrique López Llamas, Elsa-Louise Manceaux, Noe Martínez, Mano Penalva, Natalia Ramos, Oscar Santillán, María Sosa, Tania Ximena

march 20 __ may 1, 2021

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Many questions remain to be resolved. What comes after the storm? I wonder. What comes after the winds that swept through existence, leaving behind a landscape of chaos and death? What comes after the fire, after the flames?

al pie de un volcán (at the foot of a volcano) is a moment in which the catastrophe seems to give way. It is a group of voices that seeks to anchor thoughts, emotions and concepts in the firmness offered by the land on which they stand. That soil that embraces and also feeds them. Each one represents a starting point within a natural cycle that has no beginning or end; just as the burning of the land promotes resurrection — and new life in turn promotes ignition.

Using different resources, each artist borrows from their land — and even their homeland — memories of battles lost and won in order to cement a new plain on which to walk. The arena of two illegitimate but endearing nations. Leaves that herald the arrival of winter, that fall like soldiers to give way to new life. Ashes that become legends, shrubs that clothe and heal, unimaginable horizons, future to come.

Altogether, the exhibition proposes an eternal return. An infinite cosmic movement, a base of regeneration and immortality.

And then, I ask myself, what will await us at the foot of this volcano?

Text: Fatima Gonzalez