Carlos Vielma

My battery is low and it's getting dark presents the most recent series by Coahuila artist Carlos Vielma (Saltillo, 1982) as part of his residency at La Nao Galería, which is also his first individual exhibition in the Mexican capital.

Conceived specifically for the show, the body of work inaugurates a new path in Vielma's career. On this occasion, the artist shows a set of drawings, sculptures, installations, sketches and a video and its respective storyboard around a supposed space expedition on Mars, Coahuila -a distant population of 161 inhabitants-, and the discovery of a mysterious monolith in middle of the desert.

The exhibition poses a fiction from the absurd, and allows the artist to freely explore and mix personal hobbies, especially those of cult literary authors and film directors. Vielma takes as inspiration, among other things, the stories of Ray Bradbury, the rural environments of Juan Rulfo and the cinema of Stanley Kubrick. It is a narrative attached to the “fake documentary” genre that poses a science fiction plot located in peripheral imaginaries in Mexico.

Thus, characteristic themes of Carlos Vielma's work are reinforced: abstract forms from architecture, the configuration of the binational arid landscape, and border demarcations as sociopolitical problems. My battery is low and it's getting dark is curated by Juan Pablo Ramos, a Mexican writer, who has developed exhibition projects for various independent spaces in CDMX.

— La Nao