CONTRAPUNTO

KÖNIG MEXICO CITY is pleased to present CONTRAPUNTO, a group show featuring ten Mexican female artists.

November 15, 2024 – January 17, 2025

Counterpoint is a musical technique that combines two or more melodies simultaneously, maintaining their independence while complementing and reinforcing each other. In art, counterpoint manifests through the interaction of different visual, narrative, and thematic elements.

In this exhibition, featuring ten Mexican artists, we find counterpoint in their works in various ways. For example, Karen Rodríguez and Mónica Loya explore their environment artistically, but from different perspectives: Karen focuses on calligraphy and visual language in public spaces, while Mónica fuses melancholy and everyday life in a nebulous context. María Kalach and Alejandra Laviada also center their work on drawing and observing their surroundings. In the case of Sandra Leal and Jimena Schlaepfer, we see that Sandra plays with light and darkness through layers and erasure, while Jimena explores mythology and nature as a web of relationships. Ángela Leyva and Andrea Sotelo also explore identity but from different angles. Finally, Manuela García and Miriam Salado present another counterpoint: Manuela is interested in the relationship of bodies in space, while Miriam explores the connection between communities and nature from a specific cultural context.

In this exhibition, the counterpoint between the works of these ten Mexican artists creates a unique richness and depth, where diverse ideas and elements engage in dialogue with one another.

The exploration of themes such as identity, memory, connection to the environment, and visual language unfolds in a symphony of independent and complementary visions. Thus, each piece contributes to a collective narrative that, while highlighting the uniqueness of each artist, celebrates the diversity of contemporary Mexican art in a dynamic and global dialogue.