Presences in Dialogue: Painting, Sculpture, and Photography in a Living Space.

The Casa de Cultura of the UC becomes a meeting point between languages, generations, and geographies. In this exhibition, Clavo Art Space presents a selection of artists whose works explore the body, memory, and materiality across multiple visual and symbolic dimensions.

Far from the pace of an art fair, this exhibition proposes a more intimate experience: a journey that invites contemplation, dialogue, and a close encounter with each artist’s distinct sensibility. Here, the artwork breathes differently—unfolding slowly, allowing each visitor to discover their own echoes, connections, and resonances.

A space for looking and encountering

Rather than offering conclusions, the exhibition opens possibilities. Each work invites the viewer to pause, observe, and recognise in the material—whether paint, wood, metal, or coffee—a possible reflection of our own stories.

The opening, held last Friday, gathered a select group of guests who experienced the exhibition in a warm and contemplative atmosphere. The photography wing, where the works of Garret Suhrie, Jacobo Parra, and Ian Morrison are in dialogue, acquired a particularly serene, almost meditative quality.

The university’s rector, Salvador Corrales, served as an exceptional host, offering guests craft beer and a refined tasting of grilled appetisers. In a beautifully staged presentation organised by Ingrid Barajas and Helen Ortiz, the audience engaged deeply with the works on display.

Artists and Works

Abel Adrián

In his pictorial proposal, Abel Adrián approaches the body as an emotional archive in constant transformation. His bull paintings—marked by vigorous gestures and symbolic weight—function as maps of introspection where identity expands, fractures, and recomposes itself. Through expressive materiality and a decisive stroke, the artist turns the force of the animal into a mirror of the human condition.

Fran DaMor

He presents a work crafted in cedar wood and metal that evokes interior landscapes charged with spiritual energy. His intricate carving—enhanced with enamel accents that contrast against elements of recycled metal—reveals a dialogue between craftsmanship, material memory, and the quiet power of transformation.

Gabriela Silva offers a reinterpretation of the bull through a material as everyday as it is poetic: coffee grounds. In her piece, matter becomes memory and intimate archaeology.

Tania Riera explores tensions linked to movement, transit, and migration. Her chromatic force resonates with experiences of exile, reconstruction, and emotional persistence.

Javier Guerrero contributes a universe rooted in surrealist-pop aesthetics, inhabited by hybrid characters and symbols that oscillate between the playful, the fantastic, and the deeply personal.

Presents a work in cedar wood and metals that evokes inner landscapes filled with spiritual energy. His intricate carving, enhanced with enamel over recycled metal elements, stands out for its emotional and material depth.

Fabiane Campos, Jonathan Rosas, Víctor Pastor, Manuel Guillén, Luis Argudin and Héctor Vargas expand the visual dialogue with proposals that address the emotional, the symbolic, and the intimate through personal, profound, and diverse artistic languages.

Clavo Art Space expresses its deep gratitude to the Casa de Cultura UC for opening this space of encounter, dialogue, and community, and to Guillermo Clemente, Curator of Astro Lab Mexico. This exhibition reaffirms our ongoing commitment to bringing contemporary art closer to new audiences and to building bridges between artists, institutions, and viewers.

Author: Clavo Space