Romeo Gómez López

Travesía Cuatro presents Life on Mars, a solo exhibition by Romeo Gómez López, in its Guadalajara space's Project Room.

"We are in a bunker on Earth, although we should be on a spaceship heading to Mars. Every piece of this radiation-proof room is a relic and a bibliographic note that explains the collapse. There was no real world war; it was a low-revolution Anthropocene, but one that was irreversible, where the world simply began to crumble. The dystopia was worse than what science fiction could ever recreate. Digital neoliberalism established total domination, and the Internet set up cyber-surveillance to control both the collective imagination and all bodies. New forms of exploitation emerged, perfected in Silicon Valley, to amass ever-growing amounts of money exponentially.The capitalist genealogy merged with a messianic future. As in the New Testament, the CEOs created the new Order that would lead the technotrillionaires on a great exodus to salvation on Mars, the new promised land, while the rest of the population was left behind. But the ship never took off."

– Excerpt from the exhibition's text by Papús Von Saenger

Romeo Gómez López  (1991. Mexico City) was raised in the southern neighborhood of Coyoacán and studied Visual Arts at ENPEG "La Esmeralda" in Mexico City and the École Supérieure D’Art et de Design in Tours, France.His first institutional solo exhibition took place at Museo de la Ciudad, Querétaro, MX in 2024. He has also participated in exhibitions at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, MX; Museo Anahuacali, Mexico City, MX; MAC Queretaro, MX; Bernheim Gallery, Londres, UK; Museo de Arte de Sonora, MX and Centro Cultural de España, Mexico City.Gómez López is also the co-founder of Salón Silicón, a hybrid gallery and involuntary art collective founded in 2017 to support the work of female artists and LGBTQ+ community members. He lives and works in Mexico City.His work is part of the Servais Family Collection, Brussels, BE; Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection, Brussels, BE; Fundación Tequila 1800, Guadalajara, MX; Fundación M, Mexico City, MX;  Soho House Art Collection, Mexico City, MX, among others.

— Travesía Cuatro