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This summer, Los Angeles and its seasonal visitors are invited to immerse themselves in an exotic, simulated paradise. Playa unfolds as an ironic theater of Western desires, mirroring commercial worldbuilding to transform the gallery space into a faux Mexican beach resort. This scenography captures a collective yearning for foreign utopias, weaving resort nostalgia and a thirst for capitalism into an interactive dreamscape.
The works of Mexico-based artists Alonso Cedillo (Mexico City), Murakit (Mexico City), Caro Lucero (Mexico City), Fernando Gress Muñoz (Mexico City), Alicia Valladeres (Mexico City), Juanna Pedro (Xochimilco), and Clutch (Guadalajara) reinterpret popular visual culture through appropriation-based artistic practices. Each artist offers their unique critique of Western imagination, co-developing a faux paradise complete with video games, digital art, drawings, and acting as a temporary hosting site for the Internet-based curatorial projects, Patadas de Ahogadx,…
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This summer, Los Angeles and its seasonal visitors are invited to immerse themselves in an exotic, simulated paradise. Playa unfolds as an ironic theater of Western desires, mirroring commercial worldbuilding to transform the gallery space into a faux Mexican beach resort. This scenography captures a collective yearning for foreign utopias, weaving resort nostalgia and a thirst for capitalism into an interactive dreamscape.
The works of Mexico-based artists Alonso Cedillo (Mexico City), Murakit (Mexico City), Caro Lucero (Mexico City), Fernando Gress Muñoz (Mexico City), Alicia Valladeres (Mexico City), Juanna Pedro (Xochimilco), and Clutch (Guadalajara) reinterpret popular visual culture through appropriation-based artistic practices. Each artist offers their unique critique of Western imagination, co-developing a faux paradise complete with video games, digital art, drawings, and acting as a temporary hosting site for the Internet-based curatorial projects, Patadas de Ahogadx,…
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