Reflejo peludo, reflejo menguante, 2026, oil on linen, 20 x 30 cm, 7 7/8 x 11 3/4 in
Raúl Rueda »Navaja peluda«
Mexico City, May 23, 2026 - June 20, 2026
Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City is pleased to present Navaja peluda, the first solo exhibition by the mexican painter and curator Raúl Rueda.
Raúl Rueda (b. Guadalajara, 1993) is an art historian, curator and painter. He has exhibited his work in group and solo shows in Guadalajara, Mexico City and Paris. He has curated exhibitions and written accompanying texts for museums and galleries, as well as writing art criticism for publications.
His curatorial work includes exhibitions at the Museo Cabañas, the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, and the Museo de Arte Moderno. He is currently part of the curatorial department at the Museo de Arte Moderno. He is an expert researcher on Mathias Goeritz and the curator of the exhibition at the Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City): La aparición de lo invisible. Arte no figurativo en México.
In Navaja peluda, Rueda creates dark reflection, complex times, a mirror that shatters and cuts. In these paintings, the monkey is inserted into empty rooms as a displaced presence: extracted from its environment, it is inscribed within a human space that renders it both a reflection and an anomaly. Its figure oscillates between the familiar and the uncanny, as if condensing a twisted image of ourselves. In this relocation, the natural does not disappear; instead, it becomes unsettling, a rarity that reveals the fragility of the borders between the human and the animal.
Raúl Rueda talking about his exhibition Navaja Peluda at Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City.
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El enigma de los otros tiempos, 2026, oil on linen, 16 x 40 cm, 6 1/4 x 15 3/4 in
Detail of El enigma de los otros tiempos, 2026, oil on linen, 16 x 40 cm, 6 1/4 x 15 3/4 in
Tantos tiempos, 2026, oil on linen, 20 x 40 cm, 7 7/8 x 15 3/4 in
Detail of Tantos tiempos, 2026, oil on linen, 20 x 40 cm, 7 7/8 x 15 3/4 in
Tantos tiempos, 2026, oil on linen, 20 x 40 cm, 7 7/8 x 15 3/4 in
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Reflejo-oscuro, 2026, oil on linen, 18 x 12 cm, 7 1/8 x 4 3/4 in
Reflejo-oscuro, 2026, oil on linen, 18 x 12 cm, 7 1/8 x 4 3/4 in
Sacrificio oscuro, 2026, oil on linen, 20 x 35 cm, 7 7/8 x 11 3/4 in
Enigma y destino, 2026, oil on linen, 20 x 30 cm, 7 7/8 x 11 3/4 in
Reflejo-puerta, 2026, oil on linen, 10 x 30 cm, 4 x 11 3/4 in
Detail of Reflejo-puerta, 2026, oil on linen, 10 x 30 cm, 4 x 11 3/4 in
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Reflejo-inconcluso, 2026, oil on linen, 20 x 20 cm, 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in
Detail of Reflejo-inconcluso, 2026, oil on linen, 20 x 20 cm, 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in
Reflejo-camino, 2026, signed and dated on the back, oil on linen, 20 x 30 cm, 7 7/8 x 11 3/4 in
Reflejo peludo, reflejo menguante, 2026, oil on linen, 20 x 30 cm, 7 7/8 x 11 3/4 in
Reflejo peludo, reflejo menguante, 2026, oil on linen, 20 x 30 cm, 7 7/8 x 11 3/4 in
Detail of Reflejo peludo, reflejo menguante, 2026, oil on linen, 20 x 30 cm, 7 7/8 x 11 3/4 in
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Detail of Reflejo-refugio, 2026, oil on linen, 14 x 21 cm, 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 in
Reflejo-refugio, 2026, oil on linen, 14 x 21 cm, 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 in
Enigma, reflejo, ¿encuentro?, 2026, oil on linen, 20 x 30 cm, 7 7/8 x 11 3/4 in
Enigma, reflejo, ¿encuentro?, 2026, oil on linen, 20 x 30 cm, 7 7/8 x 11 3/4 in
Reflejo-apertura, 2026, oil on linen,16 x 30 cm, 6 1/4 x 11 3/4 in
Detail of Reflejo-apertura, 2026, oil on linen,16 x 30 cm, 6 1/4 x 11 3/4 in
Detail of Reflejo-cobija, 2026, oil on linen, 15 x 20 cm, 5 7/8 x 7 7/8 in
Reflejo-cobija, 2026, oil on linen, 15 x 20 cm, 5 7/8 x 7 7/8 in
Desencuentro en el espejo, 2026, oil on linen, 20 x 15 cm, 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 in
Desencuentro en el espejo, 2026, oil on linen, 20 x 15 cm, 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 in
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Espejo peludo II, 2026, oil on linen, 15 x 10 cm, 5 7/8 x 4 in