Pedro Reyes: Savage Sunday

LA TALLERA

Savage Sunday generates a nodal structure in which multiple investigations coalesce into a discursive core that constitutes an ontological construction of the study of psychopharmacology, considered both as a universal tradition spanning all world cultures and within the context of Mexico's history in particular. The approach taken by the artist takes as its basis an analysis of Greek Philosophy through historical figures like Aristophanes, Aristotle, Epicurus and Plato. Disciplines such as ethnology and anthropology have led him through the research of various past cultural projects that saw Mexico as the ideal place to unfold community-scale undertakings, making towns like Cuernavaca and Zihuatanejo spaces for social experiments that continue to influence utopian viewpoints on society.

The exhibition lies at the junction of literature, architecture, philosophy, and sound. The works comprise a sonic and visual exercise that Reyes has posited in relation to pre-Hispanic constructions and modern notions of power and express the artist's insistence on living joy embodied in human form. Curated by Taiyana Pimentel, with Mariana Mañón, and Aleida Pardo.