
Ryan Mrozowski Eagle or Sun?
Mexico City, September 07, 2021 October 16, 2021
Galerie Nordenhake presents the third solo exhibition by artist Ryan Mrozowski and his first show in Mexico. Eagle or Sun? comprises a series of paintings, photographs, and an animated video that speculate with spoken language, partial meaning, and binomial distances within visual experience. In them, the viewer is constantly switching signs and navigating frictions, similar to the experience of reading a two-sided message or trying to view two sides of a coin simultaneously.
The exhibition’s title takes from the book Eagle or Sun? by Mexican poet Octavio Paz, a prose about the crossroads between the other and the unheard of. The text is distinguished by its freedom, where words gravitate away from form, as they do in Mrozowki’s acrylic paintings of botanical elements obfuscated by scattered text. The viewer’s moving gaze stirs a desire to join the letters and decipher an apparent hidden message, while their random distribution reveals organized words amid the tension between reading and looking.
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Ryan Mrozowski, Untitled (Field), 2021, acrylic on linen, 152.4 x 101.6 cm, 60 x 40 in -
Ryan Mrozowski, Untitled (Noon), 2021. Composite installation view. -
Ryan Mrozowski, Untitled (Noon), 2021, Acrylic on linen, 127 x 101.6 cm, 50 x 40 in -
Ryan Mrozowski, Untitled (Eyes), 2021. Composite installation view. -
Ryan Mrozowski, Untitled (Eyes), 2021, Acrylic on linen, 127 x 101.6 cm, 50 x 40 in -
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Ryan Mrozowski, Untitled (Dot), 2021. Composite installation view. -
Ryan Mrozowski, Untitled (Dot), 2021, Inlaid plywood, 40.6 x 30.5 cm, 16 x 12 in -
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Ryan Mrozowski, Untitled (Pair), 2021, Acrylic on linen, 101.6 x 76.2 cm (each), 40 x 30 in (each) -
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Ryan Mrozowski, Untitled (Projection), 2021, Dye sublimation on aluminum in walnut frame, Framed: 33 x 43.2 cm, 13 x 17 in -
Ryan Mrozowski, Untitled (Projection), 2021. Composite installation view. -
Ryan Mrozowski, Untitled (Projection), 2021, Dye sublimation on aluminum in walnut frame, Framed: 33 x 40.6 cm, 13 x 16 in -
Ryan Mrozowski, Untitled (Projection), 2021. Composite installation view. -
Ryan Mrozowski, Untitled (Projection), 2021, Dye sublimation on aluminum in walnut frame, Framed: 38.1 x 35.6 cm, 15 x 14 in -
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Ryan Mrozowski, Untitled (Projection), 2021, Dye sublimation on aluminum in walnut frame, Framed: 40.6 x 38.1 cm, 16 x 15 in -
Ryan Mrozowski, Untitled (Projection), 2021. Composite installation view.





















