Frontal Sphinx

Development of a collective exhibition at Mendes Wood DM, bringing together a comprehensive selection of works in different media and from artists of diverse origins and generations. The exhibition reflects how universal mysteries are updated under contemporary impulses, creating an exhibition design that encompassed the entire gallery space. The exhibition began with the enigmatic hybridism of the sphinx — half human, half beast — as a synthesis of vital paradoxes, embracing the inexorable problems of current ecological conditions to discuss paradigmatic changes and constant transfigurations towards a radical indescribability. The exhibition also included an intense program of performances and unfolded into a publication with curatorial texts, presentation of the artists and their works, and the visual references that underpinned the project's research.