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The same place, but another place (2025)
Artists:
Julieta Beltrán, Adela Goldbard, Cynthia Gutiérrez, Diana Sofia Lozano, Stephanie Lucchese, Daniela Ramírez, Chaveli Sifre, Lucía Vidales and Remedios Varo.
The same place, but another place conjures a paradox of perception and an invitation into feminist fabulation: how a site, a memory, a body, a presence, or a form may appear familiar yet remain radically transformed and unruly, alive with latent potential. This group exhibition brings together works by Julieta Beltrán, Adela Goldbard, Cynthia Gutiérrez, Diana Sofia Lozano, Stephanie Lucchese, Daniela Ramírez, Chaveli Sifre, and Lucía Vidales, in dialogue with a selection of sketches by Remedios Varo, to reflect on ideas of dislocation, mutation, rupture, and reinvention across material, political, and metaphysical terrains.
The participating artists share an affinity for speculative visual languages—ranging from surrealist methodologies to ritualistic assemblage, narrative distortion, and political storytelling. Through their varied practices, they reimagine the porous borders between natural worlds, the sacred and the profane, and the mythic and the historical. As a whole, the selection of works traces the contours of a feminist imaginary—one that reclaims intuition, dream, desire, and magic as fertile modes of world-building.
Several works trace a return to the body—not as a fixed vessel, but as a haunted, hybrid, and resistant entity. From Chaveli Sifre’s alchemical transmutations of symbols into spiritual revolt, to Julieta Beltrán’s corporeal narratives of self-construction and personal memory, the body becomes a site of both wound and wonder. In dialogue with these explorations, Lucía Vidales’s painting stages a decomposing figure within lurid, melancholic ecologies, where pleasure and decay intermingle in a dance of tragic beauty: undone yet luminous, tragic yet alive.
Other works in the exhibition foreground ecological, cosmic, and mystical concerns. Daniela Ramírez invokes the psychedelic properties of the ololiúqui flower to map cosmic interrelations between the plant, celestial bodies, and the spirit. Diana Sofia Lozano’s mutant flora camouflage themselves from imperial sight, invoking the insurgent intelligence of plants. Adela Goldbard’s pyrotechnic works ignite the volcanic and the revolutionary, linking traditional craft with histories of resistance in Mexico, transforming pyrotechnics into both an archival practice and a commitment to a more sustainable future.
Cynthia Gutiérrez’s subtle yet powerful interventions offer a poetics of ruin and reconstruction. Meanwhile, Stephanie Lucchese conjures strange gardens of delight—sensuous tableaux in which lush bodies and edible forms spiral through theatrical fictions, and desire curdles into a portal to an uncanny world of her own making.
Threaded throughout the exhibition, the presence of Remedios Varo—whose work seamlessly merged science, magic, and the subconscious—serves as a spectral companion. Her drawings provide a generative point of reference, illuminating how artistic experimentation can conjure alternative cosmologies and feminist futures.
Together, the works in The same place, but another place create a visual grammar that unsettles linear narratives and opens portals into spaces where memory mutates and transformation persists. Here, place is not a destination but a field of ongoing translation—a landscape where the familiar becomes strange, and the strange becomes a new kind of home.
Link to private view.