Overview
Seeking to further international contemporary art dialogue, build alliances for artists, and promote cultural exchange, Transformer is thrilled to be partnering with the Mexican Cultural Institute in presenting the comprehensive ID-entity exhibition.
Presenting work that reflects issues of living within a capital city, urban life, as well as larger issues of identity both national and personal - Domestic Fine Arts, Gilberto Esparza, Saúl Gómez, Ricardo Harispuru, Mauricio Limón, Edith Pons, Xavier Rodríguez, Marco Rountree Cruz, Amaranta Sánchez and Joaquín Segura, several of whom will be exhibiting in the US and/or DC for the first time - present photography, video, painting, drawing, and mixed-media work in site-specific and site-responsive installations throughout Transformer and three floors of the Mexican Cultural Institute’s public rooms.
ID-entity is co-curated by Transformer’s Executive & Artistic Director Victoria Reis and Mexico City based independent curator Giovanna Esposito Yussif.
Image by Mauricio Guillén.
ID-entity artworks are courtesy of the artists and their galleries: Arena México, Arte Contemporáneo, Garash Galería, Galería Hilario Galguera, and Proyectos Monclova.
ID-entity is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Mexican Cultural Institute, The Mexican Foreign Ministry, The Boden Group, Fundación/Colección Jumex, The DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities/NEA, The Visionary Friends of Transformer and the Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center.
