Life is not a rehearsal, though we try many things;
it is not a story, though we invent many things;
it is not a poem, though we dream many things.
The rehearsal of the story of the poem of life
is a perpetual motion; that is, a perpetual motion.
Augusto Monterroso

No es un poema, aunque soñemos muchas cosas, an exhibition that begins with a question about art as an activity capable of taking on multiple forms, but whose most essential characteristic is movement.

At a time when the function and relevance of art are being questioned, we are interested in thinking about its capacity to move, shift, and transform; its possibility of creating a world as it moves through the world and, at the same time, of responding to reality and to the challenges that emerge. Rather than starting from a fixed idea, we think of the exhibition as a dynamic.

We are living through turbulent times, in which a change of order is being imposed through violence, hostility, and hatred. Among other things, this produces a reaction that romanticizes the past and seeks to preserve what we know. The familiar, even when it is bad.

In the face of this conservative impulse toward immobility, we want to defend an art that allows itself to be moved and that, through its response, becomes movement: a force, an impulse, a possibility for ethical, political, and aesthetic transformation. We understand movement as a way of neither yielding to fear nor accepting a paralyzed world.

The exhibition brings together existing works and new commissions by artists and collaborators from different parts of the world. Their practices range from painting to installation, bringing together different perspectives, materials, and ways of working that explore and activate different forms of movement.

A project developed by: Pedro Pizarro, Luisa Pardo, Sergio López Vigueras, Lázaro G. Rodríguez, Janet Vázquez, Oscar de Léon, and Ángel de Jesus.

The exhibition includes Abril Ramos Xochiteotzin, Bagus Pandega, Dayanita Singh, Eduardo Pizarro, Isabel Yáñez, Jo Ractliffe, Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol, Luisa Pardo, Lázaro G. Rodríguez, Mario García Torres, Matthew Krishanu, Mirosław Bałka, Nereyda López, Nicolás Pereda, Olga de Amaral, Pedro Pizarro, and Soumya Sankar Bose.

As part of the exhibition, we will also present a series of performances taking place at different moments throughout the exhibition, as well as a conversation with biologist and writer Andrés Cota Hiriart.

Images: Ramiro Chávez