POVOS Gallery is proud to present Solar Serpent – Obsidian Night, the first solo exhibition by Mexican artist Omar Mendoza (1993, Mexico City) at the gallery, curated by Victoria Rivers.
This exhibition marks a significant milestone in POVOS's ongoing commitment to creating an international platform for emerging artists whose practices delve into unique, visionary, and deeply rooted ancestral narratives. Mendoza's work, imbued with ecological and spiritual sensitivity, aligns with the gallery's mission by invoking an aesthetic based on transformation, memory, and Mesoamerican cosmovision.
Serpiente Solar – Noche Obsidiana begins from that first ancestral pillar, the cosmic origins, where art is not representation but distilled memory. Omar Mendoza creates these works from a cosmovision in which everything is alive and in relationship: water, stone, plants, fire, night. In that web of sacred correspondences, painting becomes an act of reciprocity with the earth and its cycles.
The exhibition is a mantle of time and magic. Each work reveals itself as a new way of inhabiting the world. The question is no longer just where do we come from? but where can we go when we recover the wisdom we thought was lost?
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