Erick Saucedo

Galería Hilario Galguera Condesa presents El Valle de las Ánimas, the latest solo exhibition by artist Erick Saucedo.

Through exceptional draftsmanship and vibrant compositions, Saucedo immerses the viewer in fantastical universes  where pop culture, science fiction, and art history converge to reflect on the origins of violence and its potential as a  vehicle for transcendence.

According to Gonzalo Ortega, curator of the exhibition, Saucedo’s work draws upon diverse references such as  the German painter Otto Dix, Katsuhiro Otomo’s cult film Akira, and video games like Silent Hill. These seemingly  disparate elements intertwine to portray traumatized societies and explore how the abject can become a platform for  aesthetic, ethical, and social reflection.

From Ortega’s perspective, Saucedo’s interest does not lie in graphic horror but rather in a psychological play with the  possibilities of form and the viewer’s mind.

In El Valle de las Ánimas, Saucedo’s paintings act as portals to a spiritual plane where animals and children acquire  a divine quality, and suffering—echoing religious iconography—becomes a vehicle toward wisdom. His characters  inhabit landscapes where the macabre and the childlike coexist with irreverent humor, inviting the audience to  reconnect with personal memories of comics, music, and video games.

Gonzalo Ortega describes the artist as a “lab mouse,” a peculiar specimen that moves between the acceptable and  the underground, between academic tradition and pop fiction. He emphasizes that Saucedo, rather than being a  traditional painter, is a creator who uses painting as a medium to unfold complex universes.

This exhibition invites visitors to participate in a laboratory of contemporary sensibility, where popular culture is  remixed to generate new and powerful constellations of meaning.

— Galería Hilario Galguera