Octavio Moctezuma

Galería Gobernador invites you to the second talk of its exhibition Interoceptions, by artist Octavio Moctezuma.

Participants: Roberto Turnbull, Juan Pablo Rulfo, Roberto Rébora, Silvia Vázquez Solsona, Emmanuel Albarrán Rueda, and Octavio Moctezuma.

The exhibition brings together, for the first time, the eponymous series produced between 2019 and 2025, in dialogue with works from the 1990s that function as key precedents to his current line of research. This body of work intersects art and science, shaped by the artist’s medical training and his participation in transdisciplinary programs such as the Art, Science and Technologies (ACT) program at UNAM.

Starting from self-representation, Moctezuma implements methodologies from science in his recent work—such as fluid mechanics and neuroaesthetics—to move beyond the traditional portrait. Through controlled accident and chemical experimentation, the artist manages to materialize interoception, translating the complex perception of the body’s interior into the pictorial medium.

— Gobernador