Ahí viene el lobo

Ahí viene el lobo is the first curatorial project we have undertaken at Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol.

In the words of Mauricio Marcín, chief curator at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, it is explained as follows:

The third review of the Carrillo Gil Art Museum’s collection was conceived by the theater collective Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol, who have intervened in the Mexican artistic scene by proposing a palimpsestic and archaeological methodology: within the past beats the potential for its own rereading, to become something else and to affect the present. They now propose a (narrative?) operation that blurs the rigid boundaries between the true and its nemesis, the false, taking as a starting point the famous fable attributed to Aesop, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, whose insistent repetition seems to have moralized us since childhood: you must not lie.

For centuries, the West has found in truth one of the guiding values of its social fabric. While this curatorial and museographic exercise does not defend lying per se, it does appeal to a certain thesis: reality is not built solely on truth, but also from fictions, falsehoods, rumors, gossip, and bots that disseminate and multiply images, figures, and simulated news, provoking various emotions and thoughts in those who consume them—thus generating worlds.

We often think of truth as a static concept. And we tend to dismiss other forms of reality-building that do not fit our own ideology. For Aristotle, for example, A is identical to A. An apple is an apple. Yet in other systems of perception, a human being can become an animal (a nahual), and a river can also be a grandfather. Cultural relativism and other epistemologies have long defended the possibility of understanding different cultures through their own principles and values, challenging the notion of absolute, universal, immutable, and unequivocal parameters.

In this exhibition, the heterogeneous objects placed in the gallery space—from works belonging to the MACG collection to props from the INBAL theater warehouses—and their confusing arrangement seek to provoke a reflection on the discourses a museum emits, since museums are generally thought to produce historical «truth.» But what if museums, even if only temporarily, became mechanisms for emitting fiction? This exhibition places MACG in that attempt. What might emerge from it? Perhaps a less rigid way of seeing, of perceiving, a subjectivity more open to the chaos that so deeply unsettles us.

This exhibition aims to create a temporary zone where contradictions and antinomies are possible, where the tensions between truth and falsehood are made manifest, where opposites coexist and can be perceived, allowing certainties to blur and perhaps enabling a model that broadens the possibilities of our experience.

Curatorship: Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol
Curatorial Assistant: Isabel Sonderéguer