PEANA is pleased to present no tenemos caballos para cruzar este caudal, the first solo exhibition by Mariana Paniagua with the gallery curated by Bruno Enciso.
As never before, a series of doubts, anxieties, and distressing forebodings send tremors through the porous membrane of those bodies traversed by landscape. As in remote times, it is unclear what kind of agency we possess as living beings in relation to the forces that shape many of our horizons of possibility. Do we even recognize their nature? The idea of witnessing an omen, whatever it may be, no longer responds solely to the need of projecting an exception within specific regimes, but to the longing to
re-couple body and event, even if this operation takes place in the midst of crisis.
This exhibition continues the intensive inquiries into the metabolic forces of landscape that Mariana Paniagua has been pursuing for several years now. While she persists in her intention to address the multiplicities from whose interaction space is born, on this occasion she opens a riskier turn, setting in motion new ways of producing pictorial surfaces where catastrophes are unveiled and wounds are made present without healing. A fragmented sensibility emerges —equally exhausted and alert, weighted by the present moment— whose derived gestures fuse lucidity and caution.
