Luis Camnitzer: Una que cubre la palabra que la nombra

In this, the first exhibition in a Mexican gallery of the Uruguayan-American artist Luis Camnitzer, we explore his artistic output from the 1960s to the present day. It is of particular interest to us to present in Mexico City, not only the works most closely related to the Latin American experience, but also those that impacted the development of global conceptual art over the past sixty years.

Thus, the political meaning of Camnitzer’s work, as well as politics in conceptual art and in contemporary life, take on a central role. Beyond the literal references to the development of the Latin American guerrilla movement and its repression by numerous dictatorships, these works as a whole, dismantle the exercise of power in all spheres of human life. 

At the heart of Camnitzer’s exploration, both formal and conceptual, lies the task of making explicit the audience's involvement in any communication and the revelation of the circuit that not only allows every work of art to exist but also, allows every message to be inserted into the psyche of the recipient. Beyond the concrete poetry or the graphic art that precedes him, the typographic and literal resources in Camnitzer’s work reveal the viewer’s constant involvement in modern mechanisms such as advertising or propaganda in inserting a message into their psyche, whether as a new need or as the revelation of an ancient truth. It is in the constant disquisition around the psychic mechanisms of the contemporary world that the artist acquires his true and universal political meaning.