Cuerpo, gesto e historia

During Art Week 2026, Saenger Galería presents Cuerpo, gesto e historia, a group painting exhibition that proposes a dialogue among artists whose practices span more than a century of art history in Mexico. Through this, the exhibition articulates an expanded genealogy of painting and drawing as living, corporeal languages.

The selection brings together works by Gilberto Aceves Navarro (1931–2019), Cecilia Barreto (1985), Fernanda Brunet (1963), Robert Janitz (1962), Kikyz1313 (1988), Dr. Lakra (1972), Diego Rivera (1886–1957), David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896–1974), Iván Trueta (1977), and Rafael Uriegas (1982); artists who, from diverse historical, political, and formal contexts, share a conception of the image as a space of tension between body, gesture, and history. Rather than establishing a chronological reading, the exhibition proposes a constellation of affinities in which time folds in on itself and painting persists as a field of thought and action.

— Saenger Galería