Andrea Villalón & Kitty Rice: Fractured Solitudes

December 12 – January 25, 2025
JO-HS CDMX

JO-HS Gallery is thrilled to present Kitty Rice and Andrea Villalón in its second exhibition at the new space located at Puebla 114, Roma Norte.

Inspired by the iconic book The Labyrinth of Solitude by Mexican philosopher and poet Octavio Paz; Kitty Rice and Andrea Villalón introduce their hybrid exhibition titled Fractured Solitudes. Their homage to Paz begins with the divergence of their own lives. Villalón—born in Michoacán—experiences Paz’s nostalgia from England. She reconnects with her Mexican identity through memories of her past: growing up in Uruapan and later studying in Mexico City. Villalón’s imagined visions of cempasúchil flowers, canoes, and the colorful, mystical island of Janitzio—an autumnal epicenter marking the passage of the departed to the underworld and a symbol of pre-Hispanic syncretism with Christianity—embody the nostalgia that Paz so profoundly evokes: a world entangled in the search for what was and the confusion with what is. According to Paz, history and our collective yearning for a mythical dream define what it means to be Mexican. More so, history is what we are.