CLEA RSKY CDMX: RETROSPECTIVA 2022-2025

The artists included utilize a wide variety of materials and conceptual platforms, but all share a baseline context in terms of cultural history, association with the city, and commitment to their communities. For example, Marcos Castro’s co-founded project ObreraCentro, Alfonso Zarate’s Guerrero-based gallery Punto Magnolia, and Enrique Minjares Padilla’s newly co-founded residency program El Room CDMX are all geared towards engaging and fostering creative exchange amongst their peers. As artist/educators, Alvaro Verduzco, Christian Becerra and Galia Eibenschutz have touched the lives of many aspiring artistic voices. Lucia Hinojosa and Natalia Gaia’s exploration of poetic and sonic forms have provided a collaborative base for a niche group of poets and performers in CDMX for the past decade, while Pablo Arrellano, Mariana Parisca and Valentina Diaz’s innovative approaches to sculpture and performance have brought new modes of visual language to the contemporary art scene. Cynthia Yee and Andrea Bores share an affinity for the transportive power of abstraction, often working in site-specific locations that would otherwise defy contemplative art viewing. Lastly, the artist duo An Hour is Not Merely an Hour (Diego Berruecos + Daniel Castrejón), is committed to the exploration of editorial archives and their slippage as cultural timekeepers. As curators, we are very excited to have these artists in conversation with one another on both a conceptual and creative level, and to give them the opportunity to share their important individual and collective work with the public.

About:
CLEA RSKY CDMX is an outpost of CLEA RSKY PROJECTS INC which is a not-for-profit project-based entity that showcases artistic experimentation and irreverent exhibition formats. CLEA RSKY PROJECTS was founded in Brooklyn, New York in 2019 and has grown into a collective of outposts all working independently of one another in their local communities with the hopes of finding new ways of relating to visual and performing art.

Since 2022, CLEA RSKY CDMX has mounted more than eighteen exhibitions in poster box spaces in Santa Maria La Ribera and Col. San Rafael. The project is currently located on the street-facing facade of Edison 137 in Col. San Rafael and is “open” to the public 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is the collaboratively run project of artist Kara Rooney and designer Malcolm Llanas, showcasing emerging Mexican artists whose practices either do not fit within the traditional gallery context and/or are committed to socially and politically engaged forms of expression.