Sandra Sánchez y Rodrigo Echeverría

JO-HS invites to the second talk around ¡Qué cholulada!, this time between Sandra Sánchez and the show's artist, Rodrigo Echeverría.

Rodrigo Echeverría (Mexico, 1988) is a self-taught painter who, as Nicolás Medina Mora states, “follows a set of formal laws very different from those that govern much of contemporary Mexican art. His work is too diverse and too original to fit comfortably into one school or another, and the omnivorous curiosity that nourishes his sensibility could well be described as [that of a] neo-baroque painter.” Echeverría began painting at an early age in the context of a conservative, Catholic society. After graduating from college he saw firsthand that the most effective learning occurs outside of institutions. As Medina Mora observes, Echeverría “collects gestures, colors and styles that he then makes his own, not through disrespectful appropriation, but rather by drinking from the innumerable sources of human diversity. The fundamental effect that Echeverría's canvases induce in the viewer is a kind of confusion that is sometimes joyful, sometimes disturbing, but always productive. Each successive viewing reveals new possibilities, new references, new readings”. His paintings are divided into figurative, portraits and landscapes. He has had important portrait commissions, including a portrait of the second chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, and his collections cover all levels of society.

Sandra Sánchez practices teaching, writing, curating, psychoanalysis and art. Her current research focuses on ethical-kinetic proposals and on collaborative modes of writing and production within contemporary art where the sign extends to the body. In 2015 she founded Zona de Desgaste, a space dedicated to mediation, writing and critical reflection on issues related to contemporary art and aesthetics. She currently edits the OndaMx digital magazine. With Adriana Kong she manages since 2018 the installation Café para leer. She is a professor at the Colegio de Arte y Cultura at the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana. In 2024 she curated the cycle Lo dijo con la mano, ¿cierto? at CCEMX, on the relationship between literature and the living arts. Her work in ceramics shifts the object to performance to establish relationships between weight, gravity, language, fragility, strength and desire.