Past
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ASMA & Julio Ruelas
Inverse Sátiro Envy Pt. I & II, Curated by Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio 7 Jun - 19 Aug 2023 PEANA is pleased to present Inverse Satiro Envy, parts I and II, an exhibition curated by Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio that explores the concept of contemporary decadence, drawing parallels to the decadent movement of the late 1900s and contemporary culture. It uses meta-irony and satire to discuss post-cancel culture as a... Read more -
Em Rooney
Double Portrait 20 Apr - 20 May 2023 Double Portrait is Em Rooney's first solo exhibition in Mexico and at PEANA. The artist's multimedia practice is anchored in a study of film, photography, and the material indices of these seemingly ephemeral, auratic genres. Earlier iterations of her work can be seen in sculptural containers framing analogue photographs, the... Read more -
Adrián S. Bará
We pass too quickly through this place of birth and death 7 Feb - 1 Apr 2023 We pass too quickly through this place of birth and death o “pasamos demasiado deprisa por este lugar de nacimiento y muerte” es la primera exhibición individual de Adrián S. Bará en PEANA. La frase se inspira en el libro The Emperor of Poetry traducido de Conquered Nations por Chen... Read more -
Sol Oosel
A quien le canta el viento 3 Feb - 25 May 2023 In Sol Oosel's first exhibition for PEANA in Monterrey, two stone menhirs named Las Coristas welcome us at the entrance of the gallery. In addition to the sculpture, seven paintings, a film and two sculptures that project still images are on display. The components of the exhibition are a direct... Read more -
Manuela García
On The Surface 26 Nov 2022 - 15 Jan 2023 MAIN GALLERY PEANA, CDMX, MX Manuela García. On The Surface comprises a set of nine small-scale and two large-scale works that examine the logics of the painterly surface. Composed of soft brushstrokes in different shades of red and blue, which together animate fragmented geometric shapes, the surfaces of García’s work... Read more -
Isaac Olvera
Nibbling Ribs 21 Oct 2022 - 13 Jan 2023 MAIN GALLERY PEANA, MTY, MX This exhibition brings together a selection of works derived from one of the artistic investigations most extensive of Olvera: Natasha (2016-2022). This long-term project blurs the boundaries between performance, dramaturgy and text, and is located in a rather unknown, close to poetry and a mystique... Read more -
Retrato de un Artista / Portrait of an Artist
Adrián S. Bará, Ana Mazzei, ASMA, Carlos H. Matos, Manuela de Laborde x Luis Orozco Madero, Manuela García, Lucas Cantú, Rodrigo Hernández, Ximena Garrido-Lecca 24 Sep - 14 Nov 2022 MAIN GALLERY PEANA, CDMX, Mx Your picture is still On my wall, on my wall The colors are bright Bright as ever Daniel Johnston Portrait of an Artist / Portrait of an Artist is the first exhibition in PEANA’s new space in Mexico City with the participation of... Read more -
The Sunset Ensemble
Tomás Díaz Cedeño, ektor garcia, SITES, Gordon Hall, Rodrigo Hernández, Ana Mazzei, Federico Pérez Villoro, Berenice Olmedo, Tezontle 24 Mar - 27 Nov 2022 El ensamble del ocaso [ The Sunset Ensemble ] is an exhibition organized by Ana Pérez Escoto and PEANA for the Sculpture Patio at MARCO. The show places the work of artists Ana Mazzei, Berenice Olmedo, ektor garcia, Federico Pérez Villoro, Gordon Hall, Rodrigo Hernández, Sites, Tezontle, and Tomás Díaz Cedeño at a crossroad of common temporal and spatial conditions. Read more -
Manuela de Laborde
El duelo de una espina dorsal 12 - 27 Feb 2022 PEANA is pleased to present El duelo de una espina dorsal, An exhibition and film by Manuela de Laborde, at Jardín 17 Casa Barragán curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy.
This exhibition will be open to the public from February 9th to February 27th. The opening reception will be celebrated on February 12th from 13 to 16 hrs at Jardín 17 Casa Barragán.
Some cuts are so subtle that they are almost imperceptible. Others are so marked that they distort everything. The cuts that shape a story sometimes appear to be definitive, like moments or breaks that dictate a linear trajectory. But there are times when a spine cuts in such a way that it reorganizes the order and changes the interpretation of what happened.
The backbone of this exhibition is Cinema. An ideal cinema where film and its fiction stop and expand to think about its cuts, understand its form, and question its image. In this cinema, movements become objects, images fold are cut, and thoughts are enunciated as a stream of consciousness that flows by its own inertia.
Through an essay film titled The backbone of loss and other objects that emerge from it, Manuela de Laborde, filmmaker and visual artist, seeks to give shape to narrative. Like a chiropractor twisting a back to adjust the energies of a body, The backbone of loss twists and reorganizes the linearity of her fiction to make her own SSSinema.
In Manuela’s extended SSSinema memories chase gestures that were once warm. There is no projection, screen, seats, or corners. It’s a concave place, like the eye, that makes everything part of it—even dreams. Within this SSSinema there are personal reflections that only make sense there, such as the invisible nod to Henri Rousseau’s The Snake Charmer, which early on inspired many of the ideas behind this exhibition. Manuela interprets Rousseau’s painting as a metaphor of an inverted cinema’s theater: the moon being the projector, the charmer and her snakes are everything that exists outside the screen, and the wild surroundings are the representation of what would normally be within the screen.
El duelo de una espina dorsal explores the impossibility of capturing the totality of a story in an image, or in an object, or in anything. Following the expansive tradition that once led some weaving departments to become mixed media departments, Manuela weaves palm and film, to continue expanding her understanding of cinema, its narrative, and the creation-myth.
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Por debajo del árbol [What lies under the tree]
Agustín Hernández, Asma, Carlos H.Matos, Francois Halard, Ghislaine Leung, Lila De Magalhaes, Louis Eisner, Lucas Cantú, Mario García Torres, Pedro Reyes, Rodrigo Hernandez, Ryan Lowry, Santiago Licata, Stella Zhong, Tomas Diaz Cedeño, Tania Perez Cordova 10 Feb - 4 Mar 2022 PEANA OFF-SITE PRAXIS TALLER DE ARQUITECTURA; CDMX, MX. PRAXIS Taller de Arquitectura Agustín Hernández opened its doors for the first time to the public with the exhibition Por debajo del árbol (What Lies Under the Tree); a project presented by PEANA and curated by Ana Pérez Escoto and Carlota Pérez-Jofre,... Read more -
Leo Marz
Futuristic Flower 5 Feb - 1 Oct 2022 MAIN GALLERY PEANA, MTY, MX PEANA is pleased to present Futuristic Flower, a solo exhibition by Leo Marz curated by Laura Orozco. Futuristic Flower explores the visibility and circulation of everyday objects and those that derive from the artistic endeavor; and reviews how both operate and present themselves in the... Read more -
The memory we don’t recall
Héctor Zamora, Roger White, Tezontle, Jorge Satorre, SANGREE, Pedro Reyes, Gala Porras-Kim, Jerónimo Elespe, Manuela de Laborde, Tomás Díaz Cedeño, Wendy Cabrera Rubio, ASMA 21 Nov - 23 Dec 2021 MAIN GALLERY PEANA IN COLLABORATION WITH LABOR, MTY, MX PEANA and LABOR are pleased to present the exhibition The Memory We Don’t Recall, a group show that will be on display during the course of four weeks at PEANA, from November 21st to December 23rd. The exhibition brings together the... Read more -
Para Morelio
Rafa Esparza, Romeo Gómez López, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, Ana Segovia, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Julio Galán 9 Oct 2021 - 15 Jan 2022 MAIN GALLERY PEANA, MTY, MX PEANA is pleased to present Para Morelio, a group show that originates from a re-reading of Julio Galán’s body of work and the Neo-Mexicanism painting history. Curated by Deslave (Mauricio Muñoz and Andrew Roberts) and Ana Pérez Escoto, the exhibition gathers the work of Rafa... Read more -
UNITS
Robert Janitz & Jessica Wozny 13 May - 13 Jul 2021 MAIN GALLERY PEANA, MTY, MX Two vectors at once, the optimistic vector against the doubtful vector Amy Sillman There happens to be a connection between the apparent and the unexpected, the detection of which is capable of revitalizing the perception of those structures with which we coexist. The encounter with... Read more -
Gordon Hall
The Number of Inches Between Them, (2018/2021) 1 May 2021 PEANA OFF-SITE CASA ORTEGA LUIS BARRAGÁN, CDMX, MX. Saturday, May 1st 1:00 – 1:30 pm Casa Ortega Luis Barragán Mexico City PEANA is pleased to present the work of Gordon Hall in the context of the activities of Zona MACO 2021 Art Week in Mexico City. As a sculptor, performer... Read more -
Rita Ponce de León
¡Me alegra mucho cuando veo personas! 29 Apr - 1 May 2021 PEANA OFF-SITE CASA ORTEGA LUIS BARRAGÁN, CDMX, MX April 29 and 30, 2021, 4:00 – 4:30 pm May 1st, 1:00 – 1:45 pm Casa Ortega Luis Barragán, CDMX, MX. Mexico City PEANA is pleased to present the work of Rita Ponce De León as part of the activities of Zona... Read more -
Things Happen In A Silent Way
ASMA & Jorge Satorre 27 Apr - 7 Aug 2021 PEANA OFF-SITE LABOR, CDMX, MX LABOR and PEANA are pleased to present their second collaboration, this time as part of the activities for Zona Maco 2021, Art Week in Mexico City. Things Happen In A Silent Way is an exhibition that brings together the work of Jorge Satorre (1979, México)... Read more -
Institute of Pacific Relations
Wendy Cabrera Rubio 29 Jan - 16 Apr 2021 MAIN GALLERY PEANA, MTY, MX A map is an image that describes a territory. These visual materials point to a space and a set of elements under conditions of observation, systematization, identification, and interpretation of a specific territory. In Institute of Pacific Relations , Wendy Cabrera Rubio explores a model... Read more -
Second Life
Leonor Antunes, Francisco Artigas, ASMA, Dr. Atl, Manuela de Laborde, Frida Escobedo, Claudia Fernández y Proyecto Meteoro, Mario García Torres, Ernesto Gómez Gallardo, Jill Magid, Esther McCoy, Carlos Mérida, Mario Navarro, Juan O’Gorman, Clara Porset, P 28 Sep - 6 Oct 2019 PEANA OFF-SITE MÖBIUS HOUSE, CDMX, MX. An off-site exhibition at the Möbius House of Ernesto Gómez Gallardo. Hosted by PEANA during Condo Complex 2019. Curated by Jose Esparza Chong Cuy. A group exhibition presenting works by Leonor Antunes, Francisco Artigas, ASMA, Dr. Atl, Manuela de Laborde, Frida Escobedo, Claudia Fernández... Read more -
Federico Pérez Villoro
Más allá del mundo, hay letras 19 Jun - 15 Oct 2019 MAIN GALLERY PEANA, MTY, MX Ours is a time of hybrids: of organism and machine, limb and tool, thought and code, intelligence, and processor. Those relationships that were alarming dichotomies that troubled our predecessors are now intrinsic ways of our operating. However, even when understanding and closely interacting with technological... Read more -
Half Blood Princess
ASMA 11 Jun 2019 - 14 Feb 2020 MAIN GALLERY PEANA, MTY, MX. PEANA is pleased to present Half Blood Princess an exhibition of new works by artist duo ASMA. The exhibition echoes a mythological open narrative of an encounter at the shore of a lagoon. Some fragments of this narrative suggest a hybrid being, a recognition of... Read more -
Usando este cuerpo, pensando en la fuente
Tomás Díaz Cedeño 27 Mar - 10 Jun 2019 MAIN GALLERY PEANA, MTY, MX The new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future. Robert Smithson The proportion between the natural and the artificial, as well as the continuous interaction between empirical belief systems and scientific methodologies, constitute the central axis of the artistic production of Tomás Díaz... Read more -
Syncretic Something / Algún Sincretismo
Mariela Gutiérrez 31 Jan - 7 Mar 2019 Mariela's practice takes place at different times and locations simultaneously; matter is flexible and timeless, time is not linear, nor space a place restricted to a measure. By means of diverse materials of common use, Mariela generates domestic architectures, some made to exist during a moment or even to be replicated as... Read more -
Prima Materia
Ana Montiel, Alison Kudlow, Andrea Galvani, Faivovich & Goldberg, Mario Navarro, Barb Smith, Liat Yossifor, Gonzalo Lebrija, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Bosco Sodi, Tomás Díaz Cedeño, Tezontle, Adrián S. Bará, Tove Storch, Ernesto Solana, Diego Orendain. 22 Sep - 26 Oct 2018 PEANA OFF-SITE MINNEWASKA STATE PARK, NY, US. The group exhibition PRIMA MATERIA echoes the alchemist’s thought of the existence of a prime matter that brings everything into being, the original component of the universe. In Aristotle’s philosophy, the concept involves nature in both a physical and a metaphysical viewpoint, referring... Read more -
Spirit Painting
Nina Beier, José León Cerrillo, Simon Fujiwara, Nathan Hylden, Christian Jankowski, Marie Lund, Benoît Maire, Elsa-Louise Manceaux, Diego Salvador Ríos, Eduardo Sarabia, Alejandro Romero, Sangree, Ariel Schlesinger 11 Sep 2018 - 10 Feb 2019 MAIN GALLERY PEANA, MTY, MX In 1981, an exhibition titled A New Spirit in Painting was presented at the Royal Academy in London. It sought to revalue the role of painting in an era where the focus of attention was more practical, linked to postmodern movements such as conceptual art,... Read more -
We Tried It and It’s True
Liza Lacroix & Moch Hahn 10 Sep 2018 - 10 Feb 2019 PEANA, MTY, MX. The taste is mellow and full. The color is clear and warm. And the aroma is very pleasant. No matter how you measure, it’s a true value. What else is there for us to say? Except try it. It’s true. An exhibition with works by Liza Lacroix... Read more -
Common Forms
Doug Ashford, Heather Guertin, Nevine Mahmoud, Eamon Ore-Giron, Gabriel Rosas Alemán. 6 Sep - 6 Nov 2018 MAIN GALLERY, CURATED BY OWEN DUFFY PEANA, MTY, MX. This exhibition is a love letter to the common form, a type of recent abstraction related to the utopian movements of modernism. In the early twentieth century, modernists like Joaquín Torres García and Luis Barragán pursued geometries that were, supposedly, universal.... Read more -
Twice told Tales
Jippies Asquerosos, Dulce Chacón, Pedro Noigandres, Pablo Rasgado, Melanie Smith and Marco Treviño. 2 Feb - 15 Mar 2018 Twice-Told Tales is a journey through the work of a group of artists who resort to dismantling as a mean to rethink the ways in which images recall a fragmented present. Artists in this exhibition give a second skin to the narratives that order the chaos of the world through... Read more -
You Are Here
Megan Pahmier, Peter Brock, Ricardo González, Barbara Smith, Mario Navarro, Veronika Pausova, Isa Carrillo, Javier M. Rodríguez, Federico Pérez Villoro, Francisco Ugarte, Cynthia Gutiérrez, Adrián S. Bará & Claudia Peña Salinas 9 Nov 2017 - 15 Jan 2019 French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) introduces the idea of phenomenology — perception on the ground of experience, which involves sensing and the senses— to the study of visual art in mid-twenty century. For him, phenomenology offers a mean for understanding subjectivity as mechanism to interconnect with what is around us.... Read more -
Piedras Vivas
Tezontle 1 Jun - 15 Aug 2017 In their debut solo exhibition, Piedras Vivas, Mexico City-based collaborative duo Tezontle offer works that function between found object and sculpture, cast and form, archaeology and invention. Revealing traces of their fabrication, the works in the exhibition point to the active and composite nature of national and cultural narratives, history... Read more