A exhibition made in collaboration with Diego Salvador Rios*

Cerro del Hombre stands in attendance watching over the valley. We have heard that this cerro and the mountains around were carved by giants long before man, as we know him, settled there. The stories and the legends that surround the area and the experience that we had there, working together, talking and meditating fill the work. Walking through the mountains was the main activity of the day.

 

In our mind resonate two poems:

 

Some who lack love keep traveling.

 

They sense that an airplane is a mystical vessel

That flies because it doesn’t know it’s on air.

 

They say goodbye to life and earth when boarding.

Strapped down

They must go on living because they have scores to settle.

 

And suddenly they want to talk to God.

 

—from Love and I by Fanny Howe (excerpt)

 

Toma su polvo herido 

llévalo por las grutas 

de tu saber benigno hasta la luz.

 

Dale a su color la transparencia 

de tus emanaciones

los aceites más profundos de tus ríos.

 

Dame a mí la resina necesaria 

para entender el rito de las flores

los lutos que perduran. 

 

— from Liquidámbar by Carmen Villoro (excerpt)

 

The show gathers a body of œuvres created in collaboration with Diego Salvador Rios at different periods of time shared together, between Mexico City and Tepoztlan, over last two years.