Xochitlametzin
At first, everything was dark. Life happened in essential terms: the day began with the appearance of the Sun, and its departure announced the time of shelter. The absence of light made shapes lose their definition but also invited us to look at the world differently, at different rhythms. At one time, some ventured to look for light in the flashes of the stars, fire, and moon. Now, we are the ones who inhabit and project that luminosity.
Martín Soto Climént's work is not based on particular ideas but on sensitive intentions that seek to reconnect with the origin of humanity and his artistic practice: wonder, care in subtle gestures, and the cyclical time of nature. Relearning to be in silence and darkness, as well as perceiving the slight movement of the world from that contemplative state, is one of the possibilities of this exhibition. The works gathered here are recently produced pieces that have been created from that meditative state during the transitory darkness towards sunset, which becomes an inner journey.
We find ourselves in front of a room in which Soto Climént’s pieces appear as flashes; the title of the exhibition, “Xochitlametzin”, takes up a Nahuatl word that means “bright flower like the moon” to refer to the fireflies that appear in the middle of the night. What we conceive as two opposite poles – night and day, light and darkness – coexist briefly through each of us, in the confidence of embodying our existences in half-light to slowly discover the works in space.
This exhibition is formulated as a refuge for introspection in a fast-paced world that often privileges the immediate over the essential. Soto Climént invites us to pause in the present, to inhabit it from a full awareness: everything that happens here evokes the artist's drive to create a universe of balance between human and natural principles. Each piece reveals the possibility of pausing and breathing to allow the light, even in its most tenuous form, to guide us toward a more honest experience of who we are.
-María Olivera
Martín Soto Climént's work is not based on particular ideas but on sensitive intentions that seek to reconnect with the origin of humanity and his artistic practice: wonder, care in subtle gestures, and the cyclical time of nature. Relearning to be in silence and darkness, as well as perceiving the slight movement of the world from that contemplative state, is one of the possibilities of this exhibition. The works gathered here are recently produced pieces that have been created from that meditative state during the transitory darkness towards sunset, which becomes an inner journey.
We find ourselves in front of a room in which Soto Climént’s pieces appear as flashes; the title of the exhibition, “Xochitlametzin”, takes up a Nahuatl word that means “bright flower like the moon” to refer to the fireflies that appear in the middle of the night. What we conceive as two opposite poles – night and day, light and darkness – coexist briefly through each of us, in the confidence of embodying our existences in half-light to slowly discover the works in space.
This exhibition is formulated as a refuge for introspection in a fast-paced world that often privileges the immediate over the essential. Soto Climént invites us to pause in the present, to inhabit it from a full awareness: everything that happens here evokes the artist's drive to create a universe of balance between human and natural principles. Each piece reveals the possibility of pausing and breathing to allow the light, even in its most tenuous form, to guide us toward a more honest experience of who we are.
-María Olivera
