Until the 14th of January, the Fundación Casa de México presents in its Project Room (ground floor) the exhibition Habitar la ciudad (Inhabiting the City), which shows the work of three emerging Mexican artists who, through their work, reflect on the urban environment.
This exhibition exhibits 29 paintings by three young Mexican artists: Ana Santos, Itzamna Reyes and Edgar Solorzano, who talk about the urban environment. There are many ways to inhabit a space, to walk through it, to perceive it, to observe it. It can be an automatic and unconscious action, or a profound and memorable experience.
The city is a space that is walked through and lived, that keeps memory and provokes longing, that sometimes depersonalises us and at other times humanises us, a space of continuous growth and discovery.
Ana Santos (Oaxaca, 1978) takes maps and plans of her native city to create a series of paintings in which she marks paths and routes that seem to be witnesses of time, from the past represented by vestiges of archaeological sites to the present, by means of an urban stain that grows and moves along with its inhabitants.
Itzamna Reyes (Mexico City, 1988) captures on her canvases what she observes from the window of public transport during her daily commute from the periphery to some point in Mexico City, witnessing how the semi-rural landscape is transforming. The ochre-yellows of the cornfields give way to the greys of concrete, lampposts, sewers, cables, food stalls, rubbish and overpasses.
Edgar Solorzano (Mexico City, 1989) concentrates his gaze on personal perception, on intimate spaces that arise from the collective imaginary, as his personal memories coincide with those of others who in turn inhabit a defined space. Curtains that speak of repetition, ocular speed, of those microseconds or thresholds that become a change of atmosphere. Territories that represent a transition between what is seen from a distance and what is perceived with the body.
