In its mission to show the best of Mexican art and culture, until next February 22 Fundación Casa de Mexico in Spain presents Re/Generation a new installation of the series Black Mirror/Espejo Negro by Pedro Lasch, in collaboration with the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico (INAH).
Eleven prehispanic sculptures, anthropomorphic and feminine, appear here in front of seven black mirrors that show different images related to the notion of gender, thus making new dialogues emerge between modern iconography, pre-Hispanic cultures and contemporary context.
Each pair of sculpture and image presents its own contents, collapsed by the mirror, reflecting and returning also the gaze to the visitors of the exhibition.
Black Mirror/Espejo Negro started in 2007 and was produced by the Nasher Museum of Art, Durham (North Carolina), to accompany the exhibition Del Greco a Velázquez. Art during the reign of Philip III.
As a whole, its play of transparencies and reflections makes it impossible to make a clear separation between the past and the present, the viewer’s environment and the work or the pre- and post-columbian. Since its inception, this concept has led to the creation of drawings, paintings, glass engravings, publications and interventions commissioned by various museums.
Pedro Lasch (Mexico City, 1975) is a visual artist and professor at Duke University in North Carolina. He is also director and founder of the FHI Social Practice Lab and the Artistic Research Initiative, supported by the Mellon Foundation. His solo exhibitions include Open Routines (Queens Museum), Black Mirror/Black Mirror (Nasher Museum of Art), Abstract Nationalism/National Abstraction (The Phillips Collection), ART of the MOOC (Creative Time), A sculptural proposal for the Zócalo (Casa Wabi) and Politics of fiction (Space Mexico, Montreal).