The Arcane Genders project originated in an Art Deco stained glass window in Amsterdam, whose geometry and luminosity inspired a first series of works presented in 2022 at Ellen de Bruijne Projects, in collaboration with Adriana González Hulshof and the Atelier Caraco in Paris. Since then, the artist has expanded this research into a body of work comprising dress-sculptures, stained glass windows and paintings that operate as spaces of transition between disciplines, eras and traditions. Through them, the geometric grid dissolves into the fluidity of the body, shifting the historical reference towards a field of resonances where European modernity dialogues with Mesoamerican cosmologies and materialities.

In his presentation at Pequod, Limón intensifies these correspondences through an exhibition device that incorporates seven screens with stained glass, pieces that, when integrated into the gallery's architecture, emphasise the relationship between body, ornament and space. In this context, the formal elements associated with European modernity are transformed, acquiring affinities with the indigenous figurative tradition and with textile techniques from communities such as the Wixárika or those of certain regions of Chiapas. The exhibition thus reveals a shift from modernist rationality towards an imaginary in which nature, myth and ritual find a point of intersection.

This journey confirms that what is at stake in Arcane Genders is not a mere stylistic reference, but the construction of a methodology based on the contamination of disciplines and traditions.

By stretching the boundaries between sculpture, fashion, painting and stained glass, Limón proposes a framework for thinking about form as a liminal space: at once structure and trace, presence and absence, geometry and skin. The exhibition at Pequod thus crystallises an investigation into the permeability between languages and historical times, inviting us to reconsider the hidden threads that sustain the transformations of matter and the body in contemporary art.

Words based on the curatorial text by Alessandra Troncone.

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Important note: The exhibition will not take place at our space at Lancaster 29 in Juárez, but at Naranjo #141, in Santa María la Ribera.

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