Sofia Táboas: Thermal Range [Gama térmica]

The exhibition presents the work of Mexican artist Sofía Táboas through an individual display with a new group of sculptures and paintings by the artist that examine themes of habitable space, the transformation of materials, and the temperature of color.
Sofía Táboas investigates both natural and man-made space, as well as how it is built and transformed and perceived. These ideas are explored in her sculptures and installations, which utilize materials such as artificial and live plants, mosaics, pool equipment, construction materials, plastic, light bulbs, and fire. Her works create thresholds and boundaries between elements that may be incongruent or seemingly irreconcilable, serving to reinvent the borders of the public and the private, the inside and the outside.
Curated by Kit Hammonds, Chief Curator of Museo Jumex, this exhibition is in dialogue within the Museum, with Colección Jumex: Ambient Temperature, curated by Sofía Táboas.
Relationships between human activities and the world at large have become increasingly present in our lives at all scales, from the effects of global warming to the current pandemic. What was once seen as a division between nature and culture, is now understood as interactions where each act impacts the ecology and in turn our means of survival. These present complex dilemmas of how we find shelter while also caring for the environment, when our day-to-day lives have repercussions beyond our direct experience, and what to preserve and what to change. By focusing on such apparent contradictions, the exhibition expresses how contemporary art is uniquely able to convey the complexities of our relationships to our many environments, and how the artist as curator can provide new insight into the works of others. With works by Francis Alÿs, Tacita Dean, Mark Dion, Olafur Eliasson, Gabriel Kuri, Alicja Kwade, Ann Veronica Janssens and Salla Tykkä, among others, the exhibition analyzes the ways in which heat travels through the body affecting experiences and emotions, with global climate change as a backdrop. Sofía Táboas: Gama térmica focuses on similar reflections.
Both exhibitions will be open until February 13, 2022. For more information visit: https://www.fundacionjumex.org/en