TIME IS OUT OF JOINT II
May 3 – September 6
LA TALLERA GALLERY - WORKSHOP

This exhibition is part of the Time is Out of Joint cycle, and is the second review of the SAPS-La Tallera collection, to which works by Alfredo Jaar (Chile, 1956), Circe Irasema (CDMX, 1987), Minerva Ayón (CDMX, 1985), Naomi Rincón Gallardo (CDMX, 1979), and José Luis Sánchez Rull (CDMX, 1964) are added. The show, conceived as an "out of joint" montage, invites reflection on La Tallera as a space for experimentation, an endeavor for the production of revolutionary monumental painting, created by David Alfaro Siqueiros with the patronage of businessman Manuel Suárez.

This museographic exercise reviews some of the works that make up the contemporary collection of the museum, aiming to visualize a palimpsest of narratives related to utopian, political-social, historical, religious, and apocalyptic imaginations.

This venue with industrial characteristics was conceived by the muralist as a Workshop-School for the creation of the March of Humanity towards the Cosmos (1965 - 1971). Likewise, this monumental commission made by Siqueiros pointed, as a premonition, to a march toward the future, based on the temporal superposition of humanity's passage through the Earth.

In this context, such a work is the historical trigger for a review of the collection that debates between the return of the hegemonic ideologies that Siqueiros fought against, utopian thinking, and the apocalyptic visions that threaten us today. On the other hand, in this discursive context, the works form a constellation of spectral images. That is, they are deferred space-time superpositions over repetitive patterns, which, like a score of triangles, visually integrate the gallery with the Polyangular Room.

From the graphic composition made up of triangular patterns that are deployed over the floor of La Tallera, created by Gustavo Pérez Monzón (Cuba, 1956) for his solo exhibition AIR; the collective exhibition consists of a constellation of works to create temporal reverberations that intersect with imaginations in which the future and the past are woven together spectrally.

Whereas the geometric intervention on the floor sought to evoke the invisible and the spiritual dimension of the branches of abstract art, the collective exhibition, on the other hand, proposes to saturate "the air" with multiple works that occur in untimely temporalities. As a kind of spectral reflection of our imaginations or collective unconscious, the exhibition incites the audience to self-critical reflection on an era in which political discourses, humanity, and ecosystems "march out of joint."

The exhibition brings together works from the historical collection of David Alfaro Siqueiros, such as the model and panels of The March of Humanity from the Earth to the Cosmos (ca. 1967); and works by artists who have exhibited both at La Tallera and the Siqueiros Public Art Room, and who are part of the contemporary collection: Antonio Bravo Avedaño (CDMX, 1983), Cynthia Gutiérrez (Jalisco, 1978), Christian Jankowski (Germany, 1968), Fritzia Irízar (Sinaloa, 1977), Felipe Mujica (Chile, 1974), SOAME weaving cooperative from Hueyapan, Maruch Sántis Gómez (Chiapas, 1975), Pedro Reyes (CDMX, 1972), Ray Smith (Brownsville, 1959), and Mariana Dellekamp (CDMX, 1968).