THE LATEST EVOLUTION OF BLACK MIRROR / ESPEJO NEGRO BY LASCH, AT CASA DE MÉXICO
The Fundación Casa de México in Spain hosts Re/Generación, a new installation from the Black Mirror / Espejo Negro series produced by Pedro Lasch (Mexico City, Mexico, 1975) and curated by the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico (INAH). Originating from an initiative originally produced by the Nasher Museum of Art in Durham, North Carolina, in 2007, the series has been transformed through various techniques, evolving its language toward a narrative that makes it impossible to separate past and present, as well as spectator and proposal.
The exhibition presents an encounter between eleven pre-Hispanic, anthropomorphic, and feminine sculptures, which are reflected in a necessary dialogue with seven black mirrors containing contemporary imagery associated with the notion of gender. Through this conversation, the Mexican artist seeks to decipher the multiple synergies or apparent clashes between the ancestral and the contemporary, the ritual and the symbolic, or the individual and the collective. The mirror thus becomes instrumental as both a mediating and reflective element of a dimension that turns into a space of projection and interaction with the visitor.
The ensemble of sculpture and image becomes a single element that confronts and challenges categorical conceptions of time and form, blurring the boundaries between them. The reflective action of the mirror constructs a paradigm of mutual recognition and critical questioning among the agents that shape this dialogue.
Re/Generación can be visited until February 22, 2026, at Fundación Casa de México in Spain, Alberto Aguilera 20, Madrid (Spain).
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