Los Angeles–based artist rafa esparza has two exhibitions on view in Mexico City at the moment. At Lago Algo, located within the Bosque de Chapultepec, he has a solo exhibition showing the breadth of his practice, including sculpture, painting, video, sound, and installation. Titled “juntxs” (Spanish for “together” with the “o” in “juntos” replaced in “x” as a form of inclusivity), the show will take over three of Lago Algo’s galleries, offering varying views of “domestic, queer, and clandestine environments [that] function as sites of refuge and reorganization, where intimacy and collectivity become strategies of survival,” per a release.
At the Museo Anahuacalli, esparza is part of a two-person exhibition with his longtime collaborator, sculptor Beatriz Cortez; the two most recently collaborated on an acclaimed exhibition at the Americas Society in New York. The museum, designed by Mexican muralist Diego Rivera as a temple to the pre-Columbia objects it houses, will present “La rebelión de los objetos” (The rebellion of objects), which is meant to think of “objects as carriers of memory, energy and meaning, capable of activating new relationships with space and those who travel it,” per a description. The exhibition is curated by Karla Niño de Rivera, the museum’s head of exhibitions and collections and chief curator.
“junxts” on view from February 5 to May 31, at Lago Algo, Lago Mayor, II Sección Bosque de Chapultepec, Ciudad de México.
“La rebelión de los objetos” on view from February 4 to May 10, at Museo Anahuacalli, Museo 150, San Pablo Tepetlapa, Coyoacán, Ciudad de México.
