Lucía Vidales

As part of Slow Art Day, Galería Karen Huber presents a talk about the exhibition Pillo y bebé by Lucía Vidales, with Christian Camacho and Bruno Enciso.

After being part of the commissioned artists at the 15th FEMSA Biennial 2024 (Guanajuato and León, MX), and presenting the project Hambre - Atrium Project 2024 at the Kemper Museum (Kansas, US), as well as her participation in the group exhibition Perhaps the Truth 2024 at Ballroom Marfa (San Antonio, US), Lucía Vidales (1986, Mexico City, MX) returns to Galería Karen Huber to present Pillo y Bebé (Cute & Wild), her second solo show at the gallery, which will be on view until Saturday, April 12, 2025. This time, the artist invites us to immerse ourselves in a fantastic and poetic universe through her most recent series of paintings, where she explores a dialogue between the innocent and the mischievous. As the title suggests, Pillo y Bebé (Cute & Wild) not only refers to a duality in the body of the work, but also captures the tension between naivety and mischief that permeates both the paintings and their curation.

The work of Lucía Vidales (1986, Mexico City, MX) originates from the imagination of painting: the sign of both living and dead beings, not just as bodies that allow us to discern fluids, limbs, and fragments, but also their emergence as phenomena of painting identifiable as colors, matter, accumulations, and losses.

Lucía has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally. Some of her recent solo exhibitions include: El fuego que no produce2023-2024, Museo Cabañas (Guadalajara, MX), Un lugar para sí misma 2021, Galería Karen Huber (CDMX, MX), Sudor frío 2020, Proxyco Gallery (New York, US), To cool the blue 2019, Taka Ishii Film & Photography (Tokyo, JP), and Come as you are 2020, House of Deslave (Tijuana, MX).

–Galería Karen Huber