Anda Rottenberg: Miroslaw Balka. Pursuing Meaning, Fleeing Meaning, , Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan 2017
Simone Menegoi: Social Body. The Individual and the Collectivity in the Work of Mirosław Bałka, Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan 2017
Alegra Pesati: All that Remains: the Drawings of Mirosław Bałka, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź 2017 2017
Julian Heynen: That's How it Is, in: Mirosław Bałka. How it is, Tate Publishing, 2009
Mirosław Bałka in conversation with Rafał Jakubowicz, Documenta Magazine, 2007
Peter Schjeldahl: Polish Haiku, The Reinassance Society, 1992

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Mirosław Bałka , June Crespo, Runo Lagomarsino, Louidgi Beltrame, David Lamelas, Armando Andrade Tudela, Alejandro Villa Durán, Julia Rometti, Tania Pérez Córdova, Michael Schimdt, Fernanda Gomes, Ximena Garrido-Leca, Eva Löfdahl, Helen Mirra, Francesco Pedraglio, Minia Biabiany, Michelle Stuart
»Almond shaped eyes for circles and dots • Circles for eyes and almond shaped dots • Dots and almonds for circles in eyes«

Mexico City, March 17, 2022 - April 16, 2022

This group exhibition curated by Julia Rometti (Nice, France 1975, based in Mexico City) and Victor Costales (Minsk, Belarus, 1974, Ecuatorian nationality and based in Mexico City) is articulated in two chapters/parts and an interlude. The participating artists were invited to develop new works or to reflect on existing ones, following a dynamic of relationships of affection, transformation, correspondence, and dialogue between the proposed works. Some of these relationships are more explicit and immediate, others more subtle, others almost undetectable, however, they are all present on different scales and to different extents. Like the moss that gradually covers the city sidewalks during the rainy season, only to disappear after a few months. Like a star that reveals a part of the surface of its body, hiding the rest in the shadows. The three titles of each chapter, trace variables on the surface of the certainties that have been imposed on us. They exchange the coordinates of their forms/words to redefine their meaning.

The participant artists are: Armando Andrade Tudela, Mirosław Bałka, Louidgi Beltrame, Minia Biabiany, Victor Costales, June Crespo, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Fernanda Gomes, Runo Lagomarsino, David Lamelas, Eva Löfdahl, Anna Maria Maiolino, Helen Mirra, Francesco Pedraglio, Tania Pérez Cordova, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Julia Rometti, Michael Schmidt, Michelle Stuart, Alejandro Villa Durán.

As part of the public program of the project Victor Costales presents a performative reading between each chapter of the exhibition.

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June Crespo, Pulso, 2021, Bronze, stainless steel, steel, Variable dimensions

Runo Lagomarsino, Violent Corners, 2014, Composition gold leaf applied to the wall, Variable dimensions, Edition 3 + 1 AP

Louidgi Beltrame, Fragata Magnífica, Magnífica Fragata, 2022, 2 super8 films HD digital transfer, 5min. 05sec, Color and black and white, mute.

David Lamelas, Even and Odd Days, 1968, Instruction piece, text on paper, (2 pages), Edition 1 + 1 AP

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Mirosław Bałka, The Bench, 2008, Gouache on paper, 21 x 14.7 cm, 8 4/16 x 5 12/16 in, Framed 38 x 30 cm

Armando Andrade Tudela, Canal #1 & Canal#2, 2021, Textile, sodium hypochlorite 230 x 165 cm, 90 1/2 x 65 in

Alejandro Villa Durán, ¡Hierve el camino, raíces! ¡Campo de danza, semilla!, 2022 Mud, cotton cloth, stones, huaraches

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Julia Rometti, Organza, plástico, aluminio, leds y corriente de aire, 2022, Organza, plastic, aluminum, leds and airflow, 300 x 400 cm | 118 1/8 x 157 1/2 in

Tania Pérez Córdova, A fence into a fence (fragment 2), 2018 Aluminum, feathers, and clay, 76 x 97 x 4 cm, 29 7/8 x 38 1/4 x 1 5/8 in

Detail

Michael Schmidt, Untitled (from NATUR), 1989/2014, Gelatin silver bromide print toned gold framed by the artist, 23.9 x 17.9 cm| 9 6/16 x 7 1/16 in, 2/4 + 2 AP

Julia Rometti, Seashore 1, 2021-2022, Digital color printing, acrylic emulsion, 43.5 x 33 cm, 17 1/8 x 13 in

Fernanda Gomes, Untitled, 2008 - 2022, Linen, wood, wall paint, acrylic titanium white 90 x 45 x 3 cm, 35 3/8 x 17 3/4 x 1 1/8 in

Julia Rometti, Seashore 2, 2021-22, Digital color printing, acrylic emulsion, 45.3 x 33 cm, 17 7/8 x 13 in

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Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Aleaciones con memoria de forma: entrelazado vertical, 2022, Recycled copper, Dimensions variable

Eva Löfdahl, Untitled, 2021, Digital print on cotton paper, 32 x 25 cm, 12 9/16 x 9 13/16 in, Edition 5 + 1 AP

Helen Mirra, Septembro, 2019, Linen, 88 x 56 x 1 cm, 34 10/16 x 22 1/16 x 0 6/16 in

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Francesco Pedraglio, Ideal Space For 3 Acts Drama or Comedy (+39 0318360012), 2022
Bronze cast, aluminium cast, grafiti, story

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Minia Biabiany, Relato cadencia con agua y volcán, 2021, Ink on ceramic, Assembly of 5 pieces of 35.6 cm | 14 1/8 in

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Michelle Stuart, Ledger Series: Town Creek Mound, 1980, Earth from site, Town Creek Indian Mound, North Carolina on muslin-mounted paper, 25.4 x 36.8 cm, 10 x 14 1/2 in

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Michael Schmidt, Untitled (from NATUR), 1989/2014, Gelatin silver bromide print toned gold framed by the artist, 23.9 x 17.9 cm, 9 6/16 x 7 1/16 in, 2/4 + 2 AP

Eva Löfdahl, O wave, 2022, Wood, 51 x 21 cm (each), 20 1/8 x 8 1/4 in (each)

Francesco Pedraglio, Reenactment (Palazzo Ducale, Urbino, 18 August 1666), 2022, Graffito scratched on wall, 40 x 36 cm, 15 3/4 x 14 1/8 in, 1 + 1 AP