A distant, near and invisible world
Territorial Narratives in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection

A Distant, Near and Invisible World invites the viewer on a journey through a selection of works from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection that explore and reimagine the complex and multifaceted idea of territory. The exhibition shifts from a conception of territory as a stratified and tangible ground to one rooted in primordial and earthly forces, celebrating it as a space where the symbolic and the dreamlike converge. Organized into four chapters, the exhibition weaves together narratives that represent the territory as a shared space of affection, magic and community, where legends and myths meet. These stories form a tapestry of metaphors that, in the words of Mazatec shaman María Sabina, evoke a world that is at once distant, close and invisible.

The works presented in El Espacio 23 suggest the territory as a vital force: a living organism in transformation, a refuge, a place of purification and a space of meaning. In contrast, landscape emerges as a cultural construction: a subjective gaze that, through aestheticization, fragments and categorizes the territory in order to name it. Curated by Claudia Segura Campins in dialogue with the curators of the Pérez Collection, Patricia M. Hanna and Anelys Álvarez, A distant, near and invisible world becomes a dialogue between physical substance and symbolic resonance. Within this conceptual framework, the territory is presented with crisp, unadorned clarity, revealing its political, performative and transformative dimensions.

Carlos Alfonso, Roberto Álvarez Ríos, Jim Amaral, Alberto Arboleda, Omar Barquet, Firelei Báez, Denilson Baniwa, Alberto Baraya, Jennifer Bartlett, Jennifer Basile, José Bedia, James Brown, Tania Bruguera, Vivian Caccuri, Miriam Cahn, Waltercio Caldas, Johanna Calle, Alejandro Campins, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Tania Candiani, Leyla Cárdenas, Leonora Carrington, Carlos Castro, Gabriel Chaile, Claudia Coca, Daniel Correa Mejía, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Minerva Cuevas, Modest Cuixart, Elena Damiani, Juan Downey, Marcel Dzama, Chioma Ebinama, Jorge E. Eielson, Agustín Fernández, Agustín Fernández, Claudia Caccuri, Daniel Correa Mejía, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Minerva Cuevas, Modest Cuixart, Elena Damiani, Juan Downey, Marcel Dzama, Jorge E. Eielson, Agustín Fernández, Teresita Fernández, José Gamarra, Sandra Gamarra, Nicolás García Uriburu, Dalton Gata, Sonia Gechtoff, Vinicius Gerheim, Yann Gerstberger, Jef Geys, Ana González, Thalita Hamaoui, Alex Hernández, Ariamna Contino, Marlene Hoffman, Roberto Huarcaya, Shara Hughes, Cristina Iglesias, Isaac Julien, Alex Katz, Per Kirkeby, Wanda Koop, Gyula Kosice, Fernanda Laguna, Teresa Lanceta, Nelson Leirner, Glenda León, Luz Lizarazo, Dora Longo Bahia, Bertina Lopes, Mateo López, Dagoberto Rodríguez, Marco Antonio Castillo, Rosa Loy, Gilda Mantilla, Raimond Chaves, Marepe, Enrique Martínez Celaya, Gerhard Marx, Violeta Maya, Ana Mendieta, Manuel Mendive Hoyos, Mohau Modisakeng, Asunción Molinos Gordo, Marcelo Moscheta, Richard Mosse, Oscar Murillo, Ernesto Neto, Chris Ofili, Nnenna Okore, Jules Olitski, Julian Opie, Damián Ortega, María Luisa Pacheco, Claudia Peña Salinas, Chantal Peñalosa Fong, Andrés Pereira Paz, Tania Pérez Córdoba, Emilio Perez, Nohemí Pérez, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Antonio Pichillá, Ravelle Pillay, Liz Quispe Cárdenas, Martial Raysse, Belén Rodríguez, Aycoobo (Wilson Rodríguez), Rachel Rose, Judith Rothschild, Graciela Sacco, Zilia Sánchez, Sean Scully, Sylvie Selig, Daniel Senise, Ana Silva, Kelly Sinnapah Mary, Teresa Solar, Pat Steir, Nina Surel, Mungo Thomson, Barthélémy Toguo, Johanna Unzueta, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Oriol Vilanova, Didier William, Rember Yahuarcani, José Eduardo Yaque, Michaela Yearwood-Dan, Jongsuk Yoon.

Source: Space 23 (official website).