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January 19 — February 17, 2024 Tuesday – Friday, 11 — 6pm Saturday, 11 — 5pm 91 Middlesex St, London E1 7DA When did we silence the world? When did...

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.

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. José Esparza Chong Cuy

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...