Abstract
- The Mercedes-Benz Artwork Assortment is presenting BE-LONGING, an expansive group exhibition, at Espacio CDMX in Mexico Metropolis via August 31.
- Bringing collectively works from their assortment and artists residing and dealing in Mexico, the present leans into the fluidity and id via a constellation of choices from its world roster.
The Mercedes-Benz Artwork Assortment is launching its worldwide exhibition collection with BE-LONGING, its first cease in Mexico Metropolis. Housed at Espacio CDMX within the coronary heart of Chapultepec Park, the showcase pairs works from the model’s personal assortment alongside modern items by artists residing and dealing in Mexico – a sweeping mosaic of affinity, belonging and id in-flux.
From questions of reminiscence and geography to physique politics and vocation, the artists of BE-LONGING are threaded collectively by a specific taste of freedom discovered within the slipperiness of id. The scenography, helmed by Mexico Metropolis primarily based C Cúbica, enhances concepts of interconnectedness and multiplicity via a modular, open-ended design, pushing the presentation into an experiential realm.
Highlights embody Francis Alÿs’ seminal “Paradox of Parxis I (One thing Making One thing Results in Nothing),” a nine-hour ode to CDMX via the aperture of a melting ice block, and “El shade de tus ojos (venus)” by Enrique López Llamas, whose surreal cowboy imagery evokes concepts of fragmented masculinities and embodiment. Moreover, Naomi Rincón Gallardo revives Mesoamerican fables in Resiliencia Tlacuache, whereas speculative futures take middle stage in “My future isn’t a Dream” by Cao Fei.
With upcoming installments within the collection nonetheless underway, the inaugural Mexico Metropolis version attracts pleasure for what’s to come back. In hand with exhibition itself, the gathering has additionally launched an expansive programming calendar, inviting audiences to engagee with “a number of conceptual axes” of BE-LONGING to foster inventive dialogue between world and native communities.
The exhibition is now on view in Mexico Metropolis via August 31. For extra details about BE-LONGING and corresponding programming, take a look at the Mercedes-Benz Assortment’s web site. Learn on for the complete checklist of featured artists.
Emma Adler
Jane Alexander
Farah Al Qasimi
Francis Alÿs
Leonor Antunes
Pia Camil
Nicole Chaput
Clément Cogitore
Cao Fei
David Goldblatt
Wu Hao
Isaac Julien
Alicja Kwade
Enrique López Llamas
Robert Mapplethorpe
Jorge Méndez Blake
Zanele Muholi
Ann-Kathrin Müller
Berenice Olmedo
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew
Chantal Peñalosa Fong
Elodie Pong
Naomi Rincón Gallardo
Bárbara Sánchez-Kane
Lerato Shadi
Dayanita Singh
Pamela Singh
Buhlebezwe Siwani
Martin Soto Climent
Tercerunquinto
Frieda Toranzo Jaeger
Theresa Weber
Espacio CDMX
Av. de los Compositores 4,
Bosque de Chapultepec II Secc, Miguel Hidalgo,
11100 Ciudad de México, CDMX
