Natalia Sosa Molina

Galería Hilario Galguera presents Arquitecturas biológicas (Biological Architectures) by Argentinian artist Natalia Sosa Molina at its Condesa location, next to the fountain in the central courtyard of the Mondrian and Andaz hotels, and on the walls of the first floor of the hotel complex. On the day of the opening there will be a performance at 6pm.

The gallery is enveloped by static work, where the ancestral whisper of the earth seems to be represented. Through sculptures, photographs, textiles, and performances, Sosa Molina dismantles territories and proposes new ways of inhabiting space, suggesting fragmented temporal readings that invite us to rewrite the present.

The artwork uses malleable materials such as translucent fabrics, plastic, latex, clay, copper engravings, and intervened photographs to create the sense of movement, rupture and fragility. These fractured and porous architectures emerge as ruins, that allow us to think of a rebirth, of new possibilities for understanding time, and of the politics of inhabiting space, the earth, architecture and the body.

Some artworks reference the artist’s travels since the pandemic, starting with the inability to return to her country due to closed borders, forcing her to wander and confront extensive questioning. Copper, a material that recurs in various artworks in the exhibition, refers to the mines in Chile’s Atacama Desert and the human exploitation of natural resources. Sosa Molina draws analogies between the wounded earth and the female body, both seen as eternally abundant, strong and infinite.

The exhibition questions how ideas of power are reflected in architectural spaces and collective consciousness. From colonial architecture imposed on foreign lands to phenomenons that the artist calls “object accidents”, an exchange of gazes with found material that results in bodiless performances. Elements such as latex, suggest a “skin change”, reinforcing her reflection on new ways of inhabiting space.

Far from offering clear answers, Biological Architectures seeks to provoke a sense of strangeness in the viewer, inviting them to question the dynamics that define our environment and imagine other possibilities.

–Icka Gallego