Ileana Moreno & Urmeer

N.A.S.A.L. presents the reading of the Chronicles of Marisol Rodríguez around the exhibition Los 4 ojos de la Tierra: Almighty Goddessstuff, the exhibition by Ileana Moreno & Urmeer.

What is the nature of a deity? the artists ask themselves at the beginning of a long working process that culminates in a series of sculptures. A new mythology is woven into these forms and their detailed surfaces, fueled by sugary drinks and references to both Neon Genesis Evangelion and Mesoamerican cults around fertility and the regenerative nature of water.

It is no coincidence that Urmeer and Moreno question the divine in the face of a world in crisis that questions the survival of all its species. We have lost our ties with the ancestral cults that found in nature the expression of the magical. Religions have also abandoned us, more preoccupied with continuing to nurture retrograde visions of society. What can we believe in? What figures can help us make sense of this world we see changing?

The questions that underlie these works are very serious and yet these are presented as the elements of an open and strange story, full of clues and temptations to the imagination. There are no answers and no lessons.

Avoiding the generic format of a press release, the texts throughout the exhibition try to accompany the viewers, helping them to enter a universe created by Ileana Moreno and Urmeer in which fantasy coexists with our immediate reality, not in a distant future, but today.

— Marisol Rodríguez