RENEGOTIATING PERCEPTION, A GROUP EXHIBITION IN MEXICO CITY
THIRD BORN presents a show featuring Rey Akdogan, Simon Callery, Ladji Diaby, Rachel Fäth, Emanuel Juárez, David L. Johnson, Devin T. Mays, and María Naidich.
The Mexican gallery THIRD BORN hosts As a matter of fact / de hecho y de materia, a group exhibition bringing together international and local artists whose practices examine the conditions through which perception is organized and meaning is produced. The exhibition will be on view through April 3, 2026.
The show addresses questions of corporeality, visibility, optics, and memory. Rather than treating perception as something fixed, the works understand it as a construction that emerges from the relationships between bodies, materials, images, and space. Through sculptures, installations, and wall-based works, the exhibition reflects on how the everyday is mediated and rendered intelligible.
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Install, As a matter of fact/ de hecho y de materia. Image courtesy of THIRD BORN. Photo by Eduardo Caballero
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Dark Green Pocket Painting © Simon Callery
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Emanuel Juarez Ibarra. Se cayó el agua y rellenó la grieta, 2024. Image courtesy of The Artist
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Install, As a matter of fact / de hecho y de materia. Image courtesy of THIRD BORN. Photo by Eduardo Caballero
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Rey Akdogan, clip on (f), 2013. Image Courtesy of the artist and Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
As a matter of fact / de hecho y de materia was curated by Tiffany Dornoy Rezaei and features works by Rey Akdogan, Simon Callery, Ladji Diaby, Rachel Fäth, Emanuel Juárez, David L. Johnson, Devin T. Mays, and María Naidich. Taken together, their practices resist fixed interpretations, inviting viewers to slow down and attend to material presence, sensory shifts, and the fragile processes through which meaning comes into being.
The artists explore shifting dynamics between subject and object, as well as the tension between what exists and what becomes visible. Forms appear, fade, or remain partially concealed, drawing attention to the material, spatial, and political conditions that shape visibility. Politics and aesthetics intertwine throughout the exhibition not as explicit statements, but as embodied structures that organize how experience is framed and interpreted.
Through strategies of inversion, subtraction, and self-construction, the works bring to light architectural, technological, and affective systems that often operate unnoticed. In doing so, the gallery is presented not as a neutral container, but as an active field in which perception is shaped, destabilized, and continuously renegotiated.
As a matter of fact / de hecho y de materia will remain on view through April 3 at THIRD BORN, Cozumel 86, #8, Roma Norte, Cuauhtémoc 06700, Mexico City, Mexico.
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