Jorge Rosano Gamboa presents his first individual exhibition at the LaNao gallery, thus closing his stay in the artistic studios that are a central part of the gallery project.

 

En El En Medio, arises from the crossroads of various paths, both production, collaboration and dialogue. It comes from a long investigation that starts from the reflection of time, memory and remembrance or what one thinks one remembers, but comes as an artifice from visual representation and the survival of forms.

 

This project transits between the experimentation of organic materials and the collaboration with popular artists from Michoacán, Morelos and the State of Mexico, at the same time, it was a laboratory of curatorial accompaniment, trips and conversations about what it is to be in the middle ground between the artistic creation and curatorship alongside Paola J. Jasso.

 

Through sculptural, pictorial, photographic (daguerreotype) and sound installation work, Rosano explores the relationships between the material and the immaterial, and pauses briefly right there, in the encounter that is drawn from that intersection.

This exhibition is about a non-place and the idea of ​​a production that is not found as a fixed genre, but is in constant tension between various layers and categories, a constant movement between: contemporary art, popular art, the ritual, the divine and the profane. It does not seek to find clear dichotomies, but, above all, to find the multiple paths that exist between two points, the great variety of spaces in which you can situate yourself to look at something, to create or co-create something, to give it meaning.

 

On the one hand, we find references to some of the towns of post-revolution Mexico, his own interpretation of an almost-Rulfian geography, environment, characters and settings, mixed with his memories growing up in Tepoztlán, on the other, it remains open the notion of the route within the same landscape, the transit, the threshold.

 

The use of the mask and its formal reverberation activate the game of mirrors throughout the entire exhibition. The mask has served throughout history to find oneself through the eyes of the other. With this, the artist investigates his own artistic language, but also reflects on the death of his father, whose ashes are part of one of the works in the exhibition. There is an operation to re-update the matter, give it body and make it tactile in order to go through the abstraction of memory and thus see it again, from another side, from here, en El En Medio.