Notes related to MEMORIA

By Álvaro de Benito

MEMORIA gallery presents cedemequis, a solo exhibition offering a journey through the photographic production of Yolanda Andrade (Mexico DF, Mexico, 1950). The show focuses on her record and observation of the urban and the everyday in Mexico City, emphasizing the tension between the ordinary and the extraordinary, and acknowledging the individual value of what stands apart within the collective.

By Álvaro de Benito

(S)Obras Completas is the exhibition with which MEMORIA celebrates its five years of activity. This exhibition, presented simultaneously in the two spaces the Madrid gallery maintains in the Spanish capital, seeks to open a space for reflection on this time and the impact of its activity, rather than to function as a retrospective or a gesture of self-congratulation.

By Álvaro de Benito

MEMORIA presents the first solo European exhibition of Armando Cristeto (Mexico City, 1957). Titled Apolo(s) (1979–1996), the show focuses on a curatorial analysis of Apolo Urbano (1980–1989), one of the artist’s most iconic series, while also incorporating other works to offer a comprehensive view of his practice.

In its exhibition Páro Ques̈há, the Madrid-based MEMORIA presents a dialogue between Roldán Pinedo (Yarinacocha, Peru, 1971) and Javier Silva Meinel (Lima, Peru, 1949), works by both artists that present elements from the heart of the Peruvian Amazon and the Shipibo-Conibo cosmogony. In the imaginary of this Amazonian culture, the drawings receive spirit and life when they are embodied and connected to a further cosmic language. Thus, paintings, ceramics, textiles or instruments of various kinds are considered sacred and become receptacles of spirits whose task is to watch over those who possess them.