Following two collective exhibitions, Mina Squalli-Houssaïni presents her first individual show at the gallery Lodos. With just three visits, the Swiss artist has ventured to produce locally all the work on view. This decision, despite seeming to be risky for a tourist who does not know the city’s ropes, ended up benefiting from the highly extensive offerings in materials found in the Historic Center’s streets and markets.

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There are theories affirming that the universe originated after a huge explosion. From one moment to the next, what was nothing became everything.

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La Suprema Indiferencia (The Supreme Indifference) follows the aesthetics of rendered spaces: temples of uniform lights, high ceilings, perfect curves, and pleasing geometries that appeal to desire and perfection. Daniel Pérez Ríos creates tensions between positive and negative spaces, extending and activating the real architecture of the room through his own questions about digital spaces, as well as pointing out in each work a series of binary relationships. While applying basic design principles, he eerily defines the borders that divide background and form with monochrome strokes, lines, texts, and spaces. The installation is traversed by “color” and its absence, with questions about the human and the non-human that allow opposite concepts to subscribe to the space:

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