Relaciones Públicas was founded in 2018 as a site-specific exhibition program and an agency for its fellow artists. It was born as a response to the curatorial necessities of the scene it belongs to and as an important catalyst in the creation of ambitious, experimental exhibitions, especially in the first years of the artists’ careers. RP is an entity that has built upon the agency of self-organization as a method for the accomplishment of independent, collaborative projects. RP depends on the support of sponsors for each one of its projects and continues to build a network of committed supporters. RP is an active participant in the changing needs of its generation, and it is known for its key curation of exhibitions.
Nations, Slavs and Tatars
Gathering, Shanghai
Regiones, Mariana Ledesma
Pies de plomo, Pilar Córdoba Longar
CONDO Mexico City
Pertinent Blackout
Lo más terrible, Josué González
Random Access Memories
Estación Material 1
Shy Cramps, Soft Guts
IUDUIUDUI, Kristin Reger
Garden of Delete, Luis Campos
¿Por dónde sale el sol?, José Eduardo Barajas
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RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES
Julio Aquino, José Eduardo Barajas, Luis Campos, Isabel Cavenecia, Marianela Castro, Gerardo Contreras
When a glass of water is spilled over a computer keyboard, minerals and impurities in the water conduct electricity through unexpected paths, causing a short circuit. In the same way, artworks presented in Random Access Memories (or RAM) produce a clash of the digital and physical.
As children of mass media, the artists in Random Access Memories have a fugitive nature — part of a generation who rely on their inconsistent, evasive and dynamic attributes for survival. Visually and conceptually, the artworks slip through the (already dead) original files; to sample and mix the overload of information producing their own fictions.
Memory is flexible. Memories are multiplied, expanded and diluted by our imagination. In contrast to a computer’s hard drive, the RAM is volatile— it retains data as long as the computer is on. For this exhibition(s) Relaciones Públicas mimics the functions of a computer, filling up the RAM until it is no longer capable of processing the data.
Relaciones Públicas presents an evolving exhibition, in which artists and artworks will be added to each Volume until the accumulated Random Access Memories overwhelm the gallery and must be rebooted.
In a way, the artworks added to RAM are the exhibition’s software update, but the cup is already spilled and leaks are finding new paths. In that sense, these series of exhibitions reverberate the disk function (and dysfunction): temporarily store the program of the user’s desire.
– Mercedes Gómez Gonzalez
@beggingformerci
April 30 – August 20, 2022