Galería Agustina Ferreyra

Galería Agustina Ferreyra and Pequod Co. will jointly present works by Paloma Contreras Lomas, Tobías Dirty, and Cristóbal Gracia.

About the Gallery
Galería Agustina Ferreyra is a contemporary art gallery based in Mexico City. Originally established in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2013, the program is focused on an intergenerational and diverse group of artists from the Americas, whose practices are connected through a profound interest in identity; whether it is through gender, symbols, memory, geography or relations; and the deep exploration of personal and historical narratives in order to understand the present and propose possible alternative futures.

About the presentation
Galería Agustina Ferreyra and Pequod Co. will jointly present works by Paloma Contreras Lomas, Tobías Dirty, and Cristóbal Gracia, three artists who share ideas around colonization and decolonization, fantasy genres, and geopolitical relations. Contreras Lomas and Gracia are two of the most promising Mexican voices of their generation, both former members of the Biquini Wax EPS artist-run space. Contreras Lomas works across video, writing, drawing, performance, and collective production. Her practice combines literary fiction with personal narratives to address subjects such as gender, violence, political inheritance, class segregation, and post-colonialism. Similarly informed by the Mexican post-colonial context, Gracia’s work is focused on Western power dynamics in the conception of history and aesthetics and on the creation of new possibilities through “systems of disbelief”. Argentina-born Tobías Dirty explores the complex relationship between gender, sexuality and the body through the aesthetic influences of surrealism, fantasy, and queer counterculture. He is interested in creating chaotic environments and non-linear narratives, appropriating the exhibition space and inviting the viewer to dilute the colonial binary between mind and body.