Índex 6: Intus foris

Galería Hilario Galguera presents Índex 6: Intus foris, a group show with works by Gilberto Aceves Navarro, Marcos Acosta, Willem Boel, James Hd Brown,  Marie Cloquet, Stijn Cole, Israel González “Matador”, Athina Ioannou, Enrique Jezik, Kikyz1313, Francisco  Larios, Daniel Lezama, Oliver Marsden, Gabriel O’Shea, Roberto del Río, Serge Barbeau, Issa Salliander,  Bosco Sodi and Natalia Sosa Molina.

Since its invention in China during the second century, paper has been the silent engine driving the  evolution of humanity. Despite its fragility, it has carried the memory of the world, democratizing knowledge,  facilitating the distribution of information and becoming the greatest accomplice of philosophical, political  and spiritual revolutions. A tool that has become omnipresent, though so subtle that it goes unnoticed, even  when it intervenes in everyday pleasures such as filtering coffee or rolling tobacco. On paper, an artist’s first  thoughts emerge, their ideas manifesting themselves in the form of sketches or studies, but this material  can also culminate in the final work.

Intus foris, Latin for “inside-out”, suggests a shift in the perception of paper as a support for artistic exploration  into an autonomous medium. Its versatility allows it to be molded to different conceptual and sculptural  possibilities, while its nobility enables it to take a back seat to host other media. The title also plays with the  notion of an internal and individual idea that manages to be externalized. Index 6: Intus Foris, is a new edition  of a series of group exhibitions that have accompanied the gallery throughout its history. It brings together  pieces by artists from different backgrounds to visualize the diversity of their body of work, which converge  through a shared conceptual and material strength. On this occasion, the common thread is paper, its  expressive power manifested through various techniques such as printmaking, oil, acrylic, pastel, graphite,  pencil, lithography and silkscreen to name a few. In all of them, paper operates as a body: it reacts, absorbs,  resists and transforms.

The exhibited artists present a variety of themes and techniques ranging from portraiture and landscape  to abstraction, revealing the multiple formal and narrative possibilities that emerge when paper becomes  the protagonist. Here, each fold, each stroke and each layer bears intent; each piece is an immortalized  conversation. Its essence marked by dualities gives it poetic power; despite its delicacy, paper persists.  It survives gestures, the passage of time and the sway of currents, reaffirming its impact and relevance in  contemporary artistic practices.

–Galería Hilario Galguera