Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol: No es un poema, aunque soñemos muchas cosas

Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City is pleased to present No es un poema, aunque soñemos muchas cosas by the theater collective Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol. The exhibition invites viewers to consider art as an activity that can take on multiple forms, but whose most essential characteristic is movement.

In times when the function and relevance of art are in dispute, the exhibition emphasizes art’s capacity to move, to shift, and to transform—to create a world in its very passage—while simultaneously responding to reality and its emerging challenges. The curatorial focus, then, is not an idea but a dynamic.

We are living in turbulent times in which a change of order is being imposed through violence, hostility, and hatred. This produces, among other things, a reaction that romanticizes the past and seeks to preserve the familiar. The familiar, even if it is bad. In the face of this conservative impulse toward immobility, this exhibition insists on championing art that allows itself to be moved and reacts to become movement, a driving force, and an impulse, a possibility for ethical, political, and aesthetic transformation: embracing movement as a way of neither yielding to fear nor accepting a paralyzed world.

Curated by the collective, the exhibition brings together existing works and new comissions by various artists and collaborators from around the world, whose practice ranges from painting to installation.

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

As part of the exhibition, a series of performances will be presented on different days throughout the show. As well a conversation with artist Bagus Pandega will take place on Saturday September 5 at 2pm.

Events
Opening & performance: September 3, 12–8pm
Opening performance Epifanía Sideral by Luisa Pardo at 7pm

Epifanía Sideral by Luisa Pardo: September 4, 5pm
Performance

Performance & conversation with Bagus Pandega: September 5, 1–4pm
Performance Epifanía Sideral, 1pm / Conversation with artist Bagus Pandega, 2pm

Pornita by Abril Ramos Xochiteotzin: October 3, 1pm & October 10, 1pm
Performance

Había bruma y hacía frío by Isabel Yañez: October 17, 1pm & October 24, 1pm
Performance