Visual Artist Kristin Reger presents IRRLICHT with Salón Silicón during Mexico City’s Art Week
MEXICO CITY – Salón Silicón is pleased to present IRRLICHT, a solo exhibition of new works by Kristin Reger at Salón ACME during Mexico City's Art Week, opening on February 8, 2024. Derived from the German term for "mistaken light," Irrlicht refers to enigmatic orbs of light that manifest in swamplands. Globally, folklore suggests that these luminous entities hold a sinister allure, leading people astray, both in mind and spirit. In Mexico, the phenomenon is known as "fuego fátuo" or "pointless fire," accentuating the inexplicable allure that binds enchantment to the abyss.
IRRLICHT will feature three monumental mixed-media paintings on sustainable silk, accompanied by smaller pieces and vessels created during Reger’s recent residency at Cerámica Suro in Guadalajara. Here, Reger masterfully explores the dichotomy between scientific explanations and spiritual interpretations. While science offers chemical explanations, the artist delves into the realm of metaphysical spirits and emotional projections. The paintings become a canvas for the allegory of desire, a symbolic representation of consuming, wanting to be consumed, and the allure of the unknowable.
The artworks in IRRLICHT coalesce to weave a narrative of an all-consuming desire, where fetish becomes a synecdoche for approximating the unknowable Other. Reger's deft pendulous strokes and psychedelic planes create a visual tapestry where deconstructed figures emerge from decisive, skeletal slashes. Each canvas embodies primordial entities influenced by peculiar states of mind, where bliss and fury spill forth in a riot of color, texture, and line, transcending the cerebral.
About Kristin Reger
Kristin Reger is a visual artist working primarily in sculpture. She earned her MFA and PhD from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Visual Art in 2016 and 2021, respectively. Reger completed the educational program at SOMA, Mexico City in 2016 and received her Baccalaureate of Arts from DePaul University, Chicago in 2006. She has taught sculpture at the undergraduate level the School of Painting, Printmaking and Sculpture “La Esmeralda” in Mexico City. Solo exhibitions include: Burst, Salón Silicon, Mexico City, 2022; IUDUIUDUI, ZONA MACO, Rava Projects, Mexico City, 2021; New Works, Von Ammon Co, New York, 2019; Genesis, Enrique Guerrero Gallery, Mexico City, 2018; Milktooth, DĄĄB, New York, 2018. Reger has participated in group exhibitions and performances at Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City; The Hemispheric Institute, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCa),Boston; Museum of Sex (MoSex) New York; Sala de Arte Público Siqueros (SAPS) and Museo de Arte Carillo Gil both in Mexico City; and art fairs such as ZONA MACO, NADA, Untitled, Material Art Fair and Art Lima.
About Salón Silicón
Founded in 2017 by Olga Rodríguez, Romeo Gómez López and Laos Salazar, Salón Silicón is a gallery dedicated to promoting the work of women, queer people, and/or members of the LGBTI+ community. We seek to be a meeting point for different expressions, languages and people.
08 February, 2024 4:00pm at Proyectos Públicos, General Prim 30, Col. Juárez.