Past Exhibitions
18 de octubre - 18 de diciembre 2024
Polo Farrera: Retazos




'Si fotografiamos es para apegarnos a instantes de la vida de tal forma que olvidemos que existe la muerte. La fotografía tendría pues como misión eclipsar la idea misma de muerte.'
JOAN FONTCUBERTA, La cámara de pandora, 2007.
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Recuerdo a mi abuela materna con un cariño entrañable, pero también con una sensación ambivalente, una profunda conmiseración. Su reminiscencia es bastante distante a la que me refieren mis familiares y amigos, mi convivencia era periódica y fue mermando con el tiempo, evoco retazos, imágenes de cuando era aún más pequeño y me viene a la mente una mujer tierna y cariñosa, contrario a lo último que recuerdo con más fuerza: ella padeció el mal de Alzheimer, por lo que esas imágenes escasas, se diluyen entre unas más potentes y con la que lamentablemente me quedé, una mirada tierna pero confundida reinaba cada
vez que me veía, o en su defecto a los que le rodeaban. Al pensar en ella por más que intento regresar a esos pasados cálidos, acaban predominando esos páramos en los que sentía una oscura lástima al verla, en cada convivencia tener que presentarme de nuevo e incluso pasado cierto tiempo, o mi madre brindándole el contexto de la situación, esto despertaba una honda simpatía y a la vez un recóndito miedo.
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Retazos son fragmentos de dos cuerpos de trabajo: Arcano XIII, una exploración semiótica a la carta homónima de la muerte y En búsqueda de ausencias, una exploración a las dinámicas memorísticas de la psique, ambos con años de distancia, no obstante, conectados por un tema que ha sido de suma importancia para mí, la memoria individual. Esta exposición, curada para Studio Mondragón es una pequeña muestrade un pasado cercano, en el que puedo hilar sentido gracias a la distancia ineludible del tiempo, el tema me fascinaba porque en el empeño de entenderla, encontraba un consuelo primigenio. En su momento no lo
entendía, ahora lo hago parcialmente: somos retazos, nuestra composición son memorias, sin ellas la nada se presenta, ver a mi abuela en ese estado despertaba ese miedo arcaico al óbito, perderlas es la muerte en vida, desaparecer desde dentro.
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Polo Farrera,
Londres, 5 de agosto de 2024.

Polo Farrera
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Nacido en México en 1997, Polo obtuvo una Licenciatura en Artes Visuales con honores de "ENPEG-La Esmeralda" (INBAL), además de estudios en Pintura en la Antigua Academia de San Carlos (FAD-UNAM), y Filosofía en la Universidad Iberoamericana. Se formó como cineasta y guionista en la Universidad Iberoamericana, el Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (INBAL) y la Vancouver Film School. Realizó su Maestría en Fotografía en el Royal College of Art en Londres, donde actualmente reside.
Es cofundador de LUX-19, un festival que fusiona cine y artes visuales. Su obra ha sido expuesta en el Centro Nacional de las Artes, el Festival Internacional de Fotografía de México y el Festival Internacional de Fotografía de Valparaíso, además de espacios como el Fitzwilliam Museum, Tate Modern y la Bienal de Malta. Su fotolibro ‘En búsqueda de ausencias’ fue parte de la selección oficial del Kassel Dummy Award y finalista en el London Camera Exchange.
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8th March - 8th May 2024
Andrea Honsberg: Lagunas de la sobremesa




With a wide array of techniques at her disposal that include painting, video, installation and drawing, the artistic vision of Andrea is profoundly rooted in the exploration of images extracted from childhood y and adulthood. Her work investigates experiences that reflect and shine a light on aspects of the human condition.
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The painting strategies of Andrea are characterised by repetition, vibrant colours and visual patterns. She is interested in language and how it moulds our perceptions and interactions with the world. This focus leads her to create a ludicrous relationship between the images and her respective titles.
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In the works of Andrea Honsberg, each brushstroke of paint, each photogram of video and every carefully curated installation offers a vision of human experience, inviting the spectator to participate, reflect and explore next to her.

Andrea Honsberg
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Andrea Honsberg is a Mexican artist whose artistic practice develops in the intersection between painting, fine art and multimedia exploration. After obtaining her BA in Painting and Fine Art from the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan, she currently studies her MA in Painting at Royal College of Art in London.
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13th October - 13th December 2023
Javier Mondragón Sánchez: Trazos y Rastros




The title of the exhibition Trazos y Rastros is an allusion to the brushstrokes that Javier makes, that become a trace of his whole life, his personality, his emotions, his experiences and his conscious and subconscious mind. At the same time, they are the traces that we look for to try to find a path to follow and the traces that we leave behind as we go through life.
In this exhibition of 7 paintings, the artist shares with us works made from 2019 to 2023 (the night before the Private View). The paintings will pull you with their depth, you will find traces of the identity of the artist and looking at them you will accompany him in his quest for purpose.

Javier ​Mondragón Sánchez
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Javier is a Mexican, naturalised British, multi-disciplinary artist, with a focus on painting. He has spent the last 14 years of his life in the UK. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London and his Master of Arts in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. During his BA he completed an Erasmus Exchange at L’École Nationale Supérieur des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Prior to his BA he completed a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design from Central St. Martins, University of the Arts London. Amongst other things, he has won the Standbury Scholarship Prize, and is an RBA (Royal Society of British Artists) Scholar. He has exhibited in the United Kingdom, France and Mexico.
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14th - 24th of April 2022
Nicolás Canal Tinius: Americanitis




Americanitis is a large-scale, multi-disciplinary project that investigates the role of architecture in the construction of power structures and inequalities throughout the history of the United States of America. Its core premise is that the instillation of - unfounded - fear and precarity into the people with power is what maintains and reinforces the social order.
In its pursuit of clarity, Americanitis draws from evidence found throughout history, ranging from presidential executive orders and documentation of historical events to popular films and elementary school history books. Fragments from this research have been put together as an archival installation for this exhibition. Alongside the installation is a series of manipulated archival photographs of Antebellum neoclassical architecture sourced from the Library of Congress.
Americanitis: Architecture, Mass Media, White Supremacy - Nicolás Canal Tinius

Nicolás Canal Tinius
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Born 1994, is an artist, designer, and researcher with an archival and historiographic focus. After completing a BA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, and an MPhil in Film and Screen Studies at Cambridge, he was awarded a MEAD Fellowship, which funded a large-scale art project investigating collective memory and white supremacy in the US South. Alongside his continuing artistic practice, he is building a centre for creative exchange in lower Normandy, France, which is set to open in 2023.