Raúl Márquez

Centro Cultural Plaza Fátima invites you to the opening of Apuntes sobre la lagartera, an exhibition of Raúl Márquez's recent work for the new cycle of exhibitions Tránsitos, manchas, trayectos, huellas: de trazos a paisajes.

“...twenty years ago I was told a story that impressed me: in a great flood of the river [between Oaxaca and Veracruz] the water rose so high that it dragged turtles and lizards. The water carried the lizard to a cave very high in the mountain; there the lizard stayed with turtles, shrimp and water snakes. When the water receded, the lizard could no longer leave the cave and stayed there; it was able to live because it began to eat all the animals that stayed there to live with it”.

— Francisco Toledo

I imagine you submerged in the darkness. Recognizing the properties of the penumbra, if only a beam of light projected between the water and the stones. Far from everyone you are closer to everyone. The sounds have become dense, you hear your breathing and the otherness that reveals itself in a blind murmur. Something moves, you feel it through the water. It's not you, but as if you were. It is not you, but at any moment it will be you. That which you recognize in the darkness will integrate itself into your body to continue the cycle, like a thread that connects with all that you have been and all that you will be. You open your jaw and a body enters so that you can continue your search. Now you hear the breath of a larger, older being. You already recognize yourself in the gloom. You consume and will be consumed. You have entered your own maw. Inside the stomach of the mountain you feel the passage of time. By your darkness you consume, and by your darkness you will be consumed.

— Centro Cultural Plaza Fátima

On the opening night, at 7pm, there will be a talk with the artists Thom Díaz, Saskia Juárez, Cristy Martínez, Raúl Márquez, Djordje Stanojevic (CEDIM), Jesús Malaventura, and Rosa María Benard.