Of all the strange things that Alice saw in her journey Through the Looking Glass, this was the one that she always remembered most clearly […] all this she took in like a picture, as, with one hand shading her eyes, she leant against a tree, watching the strange pair, and listening, in a half-dream, to the melancholy music of the song.

Lewis Carroll. Through the Looking Glass. It is my Own Invention

Reflections: resonance of desire is integrated by a selection of 29 pieces by Cecilia Vázquez (México, 1967) that explore, from different temporalities, her proposal for a “painting from desire”, where the invention of representation unfolds to take over the space and offer a poetics of the world through a series of formal strategies that operate like open systems, and that simultaneously evoke mental landscapes and still lifes associated to memory. The abstract elements, like primitive forms and abbreviations of thought, take control of the narrative to question other possible ways of interpreting the language of painting.

The exhibition is conceived as an installation that takes up the space of Seminario de Cultura Mexicana as one more compositional element, activating the conditions of dimension of the medias of drawing and painting, while appealing to the perception’s capacity of the viewer’s body to set off a metaphor on reflection and memory that provides a new place for delight that overflows in the intersection of reality and representation.

Cecilia Delgado Masse
Curator