Each painting in Ayanegui’s new exhibition at Galería Campeche invites us to reconsider our memories, the weight we assign to temporality, and what existence—and its own permanence—means to us.
Ente Vítreo is the title of the new exhibition by Alicia Ayanegui (1994, Mexico City), on view through January 20 at Galería Campeche, located in the Roma neighborhood.
The artist presents a series of paintings composed of subtle lines, the result of a deliberate and conscious process. Ayanegui renders contours, volumes, transparencies, and distortions that invite us to observe each work with attention and care.
Her paintings converge in a clear appreciation for the object and its gesture. Her interest in light and shadow turns us into witnesses of the artist’s color palette—soft tonalities that emerge from her studies of light and from the conversations she holds with her own past.
Ente Vítreo is also an exhibition that allows us to witness the transformation and evolution of Ayanegui’s own practice. Through the materials she employs, she opens a free path filled with interpretations and metaphors that invite us to glimpse each unfinished story. As viewers, we can read in the artist’s work the suggestion she makes between her paintings and human vulnerability itself. How long do our memories last? How long does our own existence endure?
Alicia Ayanegui studied Visual Arts at the Faculty of Arts and Design of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (ENAP). Among her most recent exhibitions are Ser Ajeno: Alicia Ayanegui, Sala Gam, Mexico City, Mexico; Penumbra en mi memoria, kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico; Cosas que siempre esperan, Galería Olachea, Barcelona, Spain; El carnaval ha muerto, el silencio es de oro, Nixxon, Mexico City, Mexico; and Todos Me Amarán: Arte de México Hoy, Fundación Casa de México en España, Madrid, Spain, among others. She was a fellow of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) Young Creators program in 2019–2020 and 2021–2022.