Saenger Galería, in collaboration with Centro de Arte Limantour, presents the group exhibition “al alimón” by artists Rodolfo Díaz Cervantes (Mexico, 1980) and Marco Rountree (Mexico, 1982).

After several years of working together in the art production collective Vigueta y Bovedilla, Díaz Cervantes and Rountree now return—this time in a dialogue where their distinct voices intertwine—with a new body of work and site-specific interventions conceived in and for Casa Limantour. This collaboration merges Marco’s ability to create assemblages using diverse materials—offering new narratives around the everyday, the discarded, and the hidden aspects of matter—with Rodolfo’s practice, shaped by improvisation, accidents, impulses, and small, monastic acts of repetition as pathways toward unexpected outcomes.

This project, signed “al alimón” (a Spanish expression meaning “done together” or “in tandem”), is more than a collection of new studio works—it is the result of a residency rooted in experimentation, improvisation, and in-situ intervention. During their stay, the conversation between the artists and the space that hosts them—the materiality and finish of the artworks and installations—acts as a guiding thread. This is visible in the shine of objects, tools, plastic, metallic, or chromed utensils, which unify disparate elements that would otherwise be unrelated. Yet the strangeness, beauty, and discomfort infused by the artists have imbued the architectural and symbolic space with a new logic—one that gives meaning to an abstract universe joined by forks on a wall.

On this way, Casa Limantour ceases to be a traditional exhibition space of architectural gravitas and becomes a spatial logbook of art created outside the studio—built through processes of making, searching, constructing, acquiring, inventing, experimenting, and intervening.

“al alimón” is born from the dance between two voices, where words and intentions are articulated in a dialogue of mutual understanding. The voices of Díaz Cervantes and Rountree coexist in a space that hosts them, that invites being explored and altered; a tribute to conversations and natural processes between two creators, two colleagues engaged in a playful exchange.

— Manuel Tuda