Pequod Co.

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

About the Gallery
Pequod Co. is a contemporary art gallery based in Mexico City. Since its foundation in 2020, it works with a group of artists that have consolidated among the most relevant emerging voices from within the vibrant Mexican ecosystem today. The artists of Pequod Co. belong to adjacent generations that contextually respond to the transition of the century, and who have had a significant impact through activities such as the development of self-run spaces, investigations in prestigious MFAs, presence in public collections and connections with fundamental entities of the global artistic circuit.

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.