Serena Creciente

Clínica Membrana, the most recent solo exhibition by Mexican artist Serena Creciente (Samantha Lomelín) is housed in Casa Rombos, in collaboration with Galería Hilario Galguera.

The exhibition proposes a revision of the body and anatomy through an institutional and scientific fiction that questions the traditional physical boundaries of matter.

The title Clínica Membrana arises from an investigation based on actual structures of medicine and biology, such as basement membranes, oral mucosa, and mandibular development processes. The project functions as an “impossible clinic” where the artist shifts these medical concepts into the sculptural realm. Rather than focusing on pathology or violence, the exhibition approaches the body as an unstable organism, centering on the processes of constant repair, mutation, and scarring of matter.

The exhibition is comprised of a body of work of varying scales that transits between industrial rigidity and organic flexibility, highlighting the Mandibular and bone structures which are sculptures inspired by the embryonic instability of Meckel’s cartilage, which function as containers of pressure and latent energy. On the other hand, the archival installations, pieces that incorporate the use of rigid acrylic boxes and registration diagrams that reinforce the clinical, institutional aesthetic. Lastly, the large-scale textile canvases, compositions made of wool and fibers that simulate epidermal landscapes and soft membranes, challenging the inertia of traditional sculpture through touch and vulnerability.

By inhabiting the architecture of Casa Rombos, the hard, soft, translucent, or opaque formats of the pieces enter into a direct dialogue with the natural environment and the isolation of the space. The exhibition layout is articulated as an incomplete archive of anatomical preparations, where the viewer confronts the relationship between inhabited space, matter, and the trace of human presence.

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