El cuarto de los ojos sucios

MURA presents El cuarto de los ojos sucios, a collective exhibition curated by Sandra Sánchez and Eric Valencia.

Let's gather around a painting as if around a fire. A room, a piece, an author. What evokes the warmth of its existence in the imagination? Let's talk about that, about what exists and what founds it: the idea behind the idea is the matter, the matter behind the matter is the idea. Let's talk about thought inhabiting the work inhabiting the world. El cuarto de los ojos sucios is a mediation and curatorial project specialized in contemporary painting organized by Sandra Sánchez and Eric Valencia. In each session, a painter is invited - with whom a study visit is previously made - to present a work live to be discussed with the spectators. This exhibition, at the Raúl Anguiano MURA Museum, celebrates the 10 years of the project and has as its curatorial axis the defense of the pictorial as a device of resistance against contemporary advertising visuality. The Dirty Eyes Room is committed to practices that operate possible escapes from the equivalence between image and discourse: burrows that avoid turning the surface into an illustrative sign. The pieces here present conjure a series of interactions where the artists stop being those who dominate the technique to position themselves as transmitters of different forces that include matter, gestures –and their genealogies–, politics, speculative fiction, code, history, chance and a certain indeterminacy. These assemblages produce visualities where the interior and exterior are blurred, giving way to consensual hallucinations, to zones of interaction that are neither alive nor dead, but open to circuits that never stop mobilizing (themselves). A sensation similar to the body –which is and is not your body– at the end of a rave at 5:00 am, to deep states of meditation, to the ecstasy produced by a thought elaborated in dialogue with someone else or to the implementation of strategies that are destroying capitalism. Just as Hilma Af Klint gave us clues about symbiosis, mycelia, and assemblages in her Tree of Knowledge series, 1913-1915, operating a hyperstition –or fulfilled prophecy– of non-linear world schemes, we believe that this set of paintings will also break time with the aeolian radicality of its visuality, which will continue to aberrate any attempt at fascism.

— Sandra Sánchez and Eric Valencia.

Artists: Marianela Castro, Gremio de Animación Mexicana, Scott Galvan, Saúl Josaf, Mónica López / Jaqueline L. Palma, Julián Madero, Omar Mendoza, Mariana Paniagua / Leonardo Castro, Héctor Rentería, Othiana Roffiel, Federico Gutierrez Obeso, Marek Wolfryd, Canek Zapata, Sandra Sánchez, Eric Valencia

Session of El Cuarto de los Ojos Sucios, 1:00 pm. Guest: Omar Mendoza