Julio García Aguilar

Colección Zarur presents HOMESICK o un cuerpo derretido al sol escurriendo entre los ladrillos, an exhibition by Julio García Aguilar, curated by Natalia De la Rosa.

Homesick is a series of paintings made from personal stains and mythologies. Inner dramas, whose plots reappear all the time in my daily life; non-linear narratives informed by my experiences growing up in a Mexican migrant family.

A body melted by the sun that slips between bricks, the greenest garden seen from the other side of a fence, American Bully who takes care of that garden and threatens - with scissors - a flower that sprouts in the middle of the freshly cut grass, a creature shaped like an airplane and a Bugs Bunny face that invades, a war machine that runs over everything, a banana grove on a property whose leaf grows on the public side of a wall, a person who carries his whole life piled up in his hands, a banana leaf in the street and a painter who paints with his own tongue, nailing it to the frame, a body eaten away by the concrete, a skin that tears when crossing from one side of a fence to the other. Like a leaf in the air, I spend my time disconnected from the earth, gliding from one side to the other, trying not to fall. Wrapped in that pendulum-like inertia, I have not been able to understand the historical forces that dragged me from one country to another and back again. In more ways than one, these paintings are about that cognitive dissonance.

— Colección Zarur