GUADALAJARA.- CURRO is presenting Simulacro y simulación, a summer group exhibition.

The exhibition explores the concept of simulacrum and simulation, proposed by Jean Baudrillard in 1981. Simulacra are copies that represent things that either had no principle of reality or already lack an original. The simulacrum is the imitation of a real-world process or system over time. The simulacrum is never what hides the truth - it is the truth that hides that there is no truth. The simulacrum is real.

Octavio Abúndez (Monterrey, 1981) has held exhibitions at the Museo de Arte Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara; Museo de Arte de Zapopan; Utah Museum of Contemporary Art; and the ArtCenter / South Florida; as well as Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles; and Present Company, Brooklyn.

Mauricio Alejo (Mexico City, 1969) has had solo exhibitions in New York, Japan, Madrid, Paris and Mexico. His work has been exhibited at the CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; Art Museum of the Americas, Washington; National Centre for Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia; the 8th Havana Biennial and the Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.




Alejandro Almanza Pereda (Mexico City, 1977) has had solo exhibitions in institutions such as San Francisco Art Institute; Stanley Rubin Center, Texas; Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City; College of Wooster Art Museum, Ohio; Art in General, New York, among others. His work has been presented at El Museo del Barrio and the Queens Museum, New York; ASU Art Museum, Tempe; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; Museo Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba; and the Istanbul Biennial. He has received grants from the Harpo Foundation, the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation and the Smithsonian Institute.

Juan Capistrán (Guadalajara, 1976) has exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Bronx Museum, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City, and the 12th Istanbul Biennial, Front International Triennial, among others.

Cristina Garrido (Madrid, 1986) has exhibited nationally and internationally, including shows at The British Museum (London), Centro Botín (Santander), Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Madrid), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Seville), CASS Sculpture Foundation (West Sussex), Centrale for Contemporary Art (Brussels), Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia – EKKM (Tallinn), CentroCentro (Madrid), Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales (La Habana), SESC Sorocaba (Sâo Paulo), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Matadero (Madrid) and AKV St. Joost (Den Bosch), amongst others.

Daniela Libertad (Mexico City, 1983) has exhibited both individually and collectively at Artículo 123, Fundación Casa Wabi, Galería MARSO and Casa Vecina in Mexico City; at JosédelaFuente, Santander, Spain; The Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, USA; Cine Tonalá, Bogotá, Colombia; POLY Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany; Akershus Kunstsenter, Lillestrøm, Norway; among others. In 2019, Libertad was awarded with the Mexican Fellowship Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte.

Juan Manuel Salas (Guadalajara, 1992) has had solo exhibitions at the Museo de Arte de Sinaloa (MASIN), Cuadro 22, Galería Juan Soriano, among others. He has exhibited in London and was an artist in residence at Air Montreux, Switzerland, in addition to participating in various national biennials such as the XII Joaquín Clausell Painting Biennial; Julio Castillo Biennial; II Biennial of Landscape, and José Atanasio Monroy Biennial.