Liminal Forms

Carpenters Workshop Gallery launches Liminal Forms, a group exhibition co-curated with Zambrano Contemporary at Torre Invex in the vibrant Monterrey community. The exhibition is accompanied by a curatorial text written by Gonzalo Ortega, former curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey (MARCO).

Liminal Forms examines artists working with industrial materials and processes, paying homage to Monterrey as the industrial capital of Mexico. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with ZO Contemporary, establishes a dialogue between works by renowned modern and contemporary Latin American artists.

Liminal Forms connects these artists and their practices, as material plays a starring role in these works that pioneer new vocabularies while transforming our perceptions.

As the title aptly reflects, liminal suggests the transition between two states, alchemically indeterminate. Inherent in these contradictions, such as design and art or utility and sculpture, we discover that these works are ultimately many things simultaneously: function, form, and poetry.

“Liminal Forms compiles works that exude eclecticism but have a singular feature: the pieces rely on refined compositions, extreme attention to details in finishes, and an interest in manifesting that the notion of “luxury” has to do much more with exercising care for these processes than with the nobility of the materials. The way that these virtuoso relationships are generated among concrete, steel, stone, wood, silicone, brass, fabrics and light re-evaluate and reinvent their possibilities. What takes place is the “redemption” of materials known by everyone.”

— Gonzalo Ortega

Participating creators: Maarten Baas, Nacho Carbonell, Wendell Castle, Vincenzo De Cotiis, Ingrid Donat, Drift, Vincent Dubourg, Atelier Van Lieshout, Frederik Molenschot, Artur Lescher, Jose Dávila, Edgar Orlaineta, Gabriel de la Mora, Martín Soto Climent, Omar Barquet, Marco A. Castillo, Jesús Rafael Soto y Héctor Zamora.

Exhibition view: courtesy of Carpenters Workshop Gallery