Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art

Claudia Peña Salinas’s series combine sculpture, images, installation, and video to tell poetic narratives. For this exhibition, she enlarges upon a series that she has developed out of her travels and investigations into the stone sculpture to Tláloc, the Aztec deity representing rain. She has repeatedly gone back to her native Mexico in search of the original site of the ancient Tlaloc monolith, which was found in Coatlinchan, Mexico and is now installed in the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City. The visual layout of Peña Salinas’s installation is imagined as Tlalocán, the mythical paradise known to the Aztecs and ruled by Tláloc and his consort the water goddess Chalchiuhtlicue. The resulting series unites modern and minimalist lines with Aztec mythology.