2020 — Exhibition

Silent Water

Dike Blair, Vija Celmins, Willem de Rooij, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez Torres, Gordon Hall, Michael Ross, Wolfgang Tillmans

02/02/2020 - 04/07/2020Cozumel #61

Galeria Mascota is proud to present Silent Water, a group exhibition illustrated through eight intergenerational artists, exploring the relations of detail, intimacy, and temporality. Ranging from photography to small format sculpture, the works featured in Silent Water create an environment of delicate tension. Depicting a human strength in the fragility of a passing moment. The works of the artists featured, prolong a sense of intimacy that can at times border with the uncomfortable, providing the privilege of being able to stare at a moment that is fleeting, to intently gaze at an exposed wrist or the surface of an open ocean. Like the surface of a lake, before a stone is thrown into it, there is a danger in the stillness that exists before the action. The possibility of its interruption evokes an undeniable fear of losing the moment if we look away. This is an urgency for which we are not always prepared, but at times can find ourselves craving. The dynamics of exposure and vulnerability of the works allow a delicate interaction between the viewer’s curiosity and the honesty of the artistic act. While Silent Water doesn’t center around a specific narrative, the works exist in dialogue with one another’s struggle, becoming an intimate portrait that reminds us why we return to art.