Arte Abierto presents Modern/Mother Nature by artist Gabriela Galván (Mexico City, 1974), a site-specific installation for which the Arte Abierto exhibition hall is transformed into a natural garden with plants endemic to El Pedregal and sensory hydroponics, which seeks to generate cognitive, contemplative and imaginative experiences around nature and our belonging to it. In addition, for the first time an Open Art exhibition extends to the public space of Artz Pedregal with a natural and artistic garden.

Recovery fee $35.00 pesos (Students, teachers and seniors enter free by showing ID)

Modthern Nature's public Program to be developed throughout the exhibition, will be focused on expanding several of the key concepts and transversal themes that inhabit the project, to explore its complexity from different scales and languages. With workshops, performances, special visits, talks and activations, among other activities, it will seek to include a series of interdisciplinary voices that contribute from different readings and visions to topics such as nature and endemic ways of life, transformation and its layers of possibility, and the natural and urban history of the Pedregal.

As part of its mediation proposal, Arte Abierto will propose activities that meet and respond to the natural interests of visitors, as well as the topics with which the public feels the most interest, affinity or curiosity.

Gabriela Galván (CDMX, 1974) is an artist and art educator. Her work focuses on exploring the concept of transformation through different media such as installation, public art, sculpture, video, drawing, design, and performance. She is interested in the processes of study, production, dialogue, and interaction that involve interconnectivity and the open exchange of ideas and sensory experiences. She is currently focused on processes of exploration of time, to develop a body of work in relation to flowers and living plants.

— Arte Abierto

Image credits: Gabriela Galván, Modern Nature/ Mother Nature, 2023. Violet pigmented glass tube, yellow pigmented glass tube, argon, mercury, metal electrodes, electric current 35cm x 3.50m x 12cm. Photo: Guadalupe Salcedo. Courtesy Arte Abierto