Tania Pérez Córdova

• Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (MX)
• 13.03.–27.07.2025

The Horizon is Always Receding brings together a selection of works that reflect on the extension and implications that the term contemporary can have. As the philosopher Giorgio Agamben suggests, contemporaneity can be understood as a term that transcends temporal demarcations and transcends simultaneity and coexistence. In this sense, this exhibition serves as a symptomatic sample of the concerns of today's artists and their immediate relationship with the geopolitical and social environment.

Since its founding in 1981, the Museo Tamayo has built an international art collection respecting the initial criteria of Rufino and Olga Tamayo. Four decades after the museum's founding and far from imposing a linear or geographic narrative, the collection reflects the complexity, diversity and conceptual tensions of our time. It also crosses lines of thought and multiple disciplines and techniques, extending its reach and value.

The title of this exhibition suggests that contemporaneity is conducive to the inevitable emergence of a surplus. When one intends to keep oneself updated with respect to the totality of factors that make up the present, a new situation always emerges that escapes from any possibility of apprehension. In this way it can be said that the horizon of a presentist model of thought is always receding.

The exhibition presents works by: Joachim Koester, Paloma Contreras Lomas, Cildo Meireles, Danh Vo, Mirtha Dermisache, Wolfgang Tillmans, Gabriel Orozco, Tania Pérez Córdova, Roberto Gil de Montes, Mariela Scafati, Francis Alÿs, Pablo Vargas Lugo, Carlos Amorales, Jorge Satorre, Simon Starling, Jonathan Monk, Mario García Torres, David Lamelas, Fernanda Laguna, Bruno Botella and Melanie Smith.

Curated by: Lorenza Herrasti, Ana Sampietro and Lena Solà Nogué.

Museo Tamayo