GROUP SHOW
CONTRAPUNTO

KÖNIG MEXICO CITY
15 NOVEMBER 2024 – 17 JANUARY 2025

KÖNIG MEXICO CITY is pleased to present CONTRAPUNTO, the Spanish word for counterpoint, a group show featuring ten Mexican female artists.

Counterpoint is a musical technique that combines two or more melodies simultaneously, maintaining their independence while complementing and reinforcing each other. In art, counterpoint manifests through the interaction of different visual, narrative, and thematic elements.

In this exhibition, featuring ten Mexican artists, we find counterpoint in their works in various ways. For example, Karen Rodríguez and Mónica Loya explore their environment artistically, but from different perspectives: Karen focuses on calligraphy and visual language in public spaces, while Mónica fuses melancholy and everyday life in a nebulous context. This counterpoint highlights how both approach space in distinct ways: one through textual meaning and the other through visual emotions.

María Kalach and Alejandra Laviada also center their work on drawing and observing their surroundings. Kalach describes a cycle of filling and emptying in her creative process, while Laviada offers a more emotional and visceral approach. Their counterpoint lies in the process: one emphasizes the action of filling and emptying, while the other focuses on the emotional connection to what is observed.

In the case of Sandra Leal and Jimena Schlaepfer, we see that Sandra plays with light and darkness through layers and erasure, while Jimena explores mythology and nature as a web of relationships. Here, the counterpoint is established between the tangible and the intangible: Leal concentrates on the physical perception of art, while Schalapfer seeks to understand cultural identity through natural and mythological symbolism.

Ángela Leyva and Andrea Sotelo also explore identity but from different angles. Ángela uses technology and machine learning to question the boundaries between the human and the artificial, while Andrea investigates female iconography throughout history, exploring the parallels between representations of female deities in various civilizations, with a particular focus on Mesoamerican icons. Their counterpoint lies in the interplay between modernity and technology contrasted with tradition and mythology, as well as their involvement in identifying and reinterpreting mythical elements that shape the collective imagination of what is considered feminine, human, and non-human.

Finally, Manuela García and Miriam Salado present another counterpoint: Manuela is interested in the relationship of bodies in space, while Miriam explores the connection between communities and nature from a specific cultural context. This duality manifests in how Manuela focuses on corporeality and physical space, while Miriam examines the intersection of culture, history, and nature.

In this exhibition, the counterpoint between the works of these ten Mexican artists creates a unique richness and depth, where diverse ideas and elements engage in dialogue with one another. The exploration of themes such as identity, memory, connection to the environment, and visual language unfolds in a symphony of independent and complementary visions. Thus, each piece contributes to a collective narrative that, while highlighting the uniqueness of each artist, celebrates the diversity of contemporary Mexican art in a dynamic and global dialogue.