One Foot Apart

One Foot ApartCurator: Ruth Estévez

One foot apart discusses actual measurements and procedures that help us to understand the physical and symbolic distances between both things and individuals, between their desires and yearnings. The artists seek to problematize the spaces that separate them or point out the use of indecipherable rhetoric. Thirteen Mexican artists propose a singular vision of the paradox through games applied to all types of situations, both physical and abstract. The artists, the majority of which come from Mexico City, rethink how to deal with contexts that are completely outside of all scale and measurement.

If the Mexican art of the Nineties is recognized for the aestheticization of the idiosyncracies of the urban and the experimentation with its various objects of survival, these artists now deal with a far more subtle and abstract space, that is, however, equally tied to the quotidian: the margin of error in the translation of things, giving way to the most complete uncertainty.