Following Noetic, presented in our Guayaquil space in 2021, the gallery is pleased to present La dificultad de ser un dios by Dia Muñoz. This exhibition marks the artist’s first solo show in Mexico.
"(…) Originally from Guayaquil, Ecuador, and currently based in Madrid, Spain, Día Muñoz is interested in the intersections of art and biotechnology. Working across sculpture, video, and performance, Muñoz creates fictitious entities and artifacts that reflect on the disconnection between our bodies and their essential needs in contemporary capitalist-technocratic societies. In the absence of humans, groups of amorphous spectrums escape from the confines of Petri dishes and float freely through a sterile concrete room. Within an exhibition space transformed into a scientific laboratory, Muñoz’s works take the form of bacteria that operate as alchemical reactors, using waste to generate vital elements such as light, water, and oxygen. Combining materials including borosilicate glass, silver, and neon, this body of sculptures extends Muñoz’s ongoing research into how genetically modified microorganisms might help humans develop alternative forms of energy in a near future marked by the depletion of fossil fuels. (…) "
Exhbiton text by Fabiola Talavera