Lucía Vidales & Edgar Cobián

Karen Huber Gallery presents the dual exhibition araña perro by Lucía Vidales and Edgar Cobián.

Edgar Cobián (born in Guadalajara, 1978) and I (Lucía Vidales, born in Mexico City,1986) met in October 2020, invited by Enrique Hernández to Residencia 797, a space in Guadalajara dedicated to generating encounters and dialogues around painting. On that occasion we also enjoyed the complicity of Rigo Campuzano, who in turn runs the residency Casa Brasil in the same city. This exhibition shows part of what resulted from that meeting, throughout three weeks of sharing afternoons and sleeplessness: a series of drawings and paintings made by four hands, without any sketches, or indeed any explicit rules other than the agreement to use certain materials and supports, faced with which we were to respond, question, or look in ways both shared and dissimilar.

Run fast, bite hard!
Donna Haraway

Improvising, responding, exchanging

The body is not always human

Scorning a fixed idea of what a body isThe thing is not always thing

A hand, a foot can turn into a fluid, green mucus, rust

A blender of biological elements, plastic scrap, imitation jewelry

Bones that are paintingsIdentifying with the animal

Sometimes the shape is the starting point,

Other times it’s the color

Going for, going against, or better yet: neither for nor against

More pathos than logos

There are answers and exchanges; there is rhythm

Pathos as a way of doing

Being immature

The phobias, the philias: letting them take place, take shape, showing themselves

Ignoring and trusting

Walking on all four like female dogs whose paws swell

Changing color and expanding

Bones of giants and small rats

Walking with eight limbs on the walls

Weaving a fragile but flexible and sticky structure in order to feed on it

These bodies melt, dance in pagan and artificial rituals, intoxicated, loitering

Aimlessly

— Lucía Vidales