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MASA and Luhring Augustine present their second collaborative exhibition highlighting the work of artists and designers from both gallery programs, installed throughout MASA’s historic Mexico City space.

Friendship, as Myriam Ben Salah has pointed out, is not a stable state. Like the works in this exhibition, friendship is a choice made freely, one which allows the contours of the individual and our distinct interests — whether institutional or personal — to embrace an identification, even admiration or affection, with someone considered other than oneself.

Across three rooms of MASA’s historic space in Mexico City are installed a trio of pairings of artists – Pipilotti Rist and Alma Allen; Eva LeWitt and Hector Esrawe; and Diego Singh and Renata Petersen. Although there are affinities between the works, the dialogues between artists from Mexico and their international counterparts are associative rather than didactic, and unexpected encounters among recognizable idiosyncrasies arise. In the work of Rist and Allen is a shared engagement with inner visions, collective consciousness, and extra-sensory perception; an interest in translating dreams that are once fantastical and familiar into the material. Similarly, both LeWitt and Esrawe make works that exist in a space between lightness and architecture, manipulating industrial materials into installations in which granular elements expand into a view, a horizon, or a cosmos. Renata Petersen and Diego Singh present here works in completely different mediums — blown glass and painting, respectively — and yet both approach figuration with obfuscation, imbuing a transcendental space with a libidinal crackle, the unabashedly human.

MASA’s gallery space was built as a country home in the 19th century. Throughout the 20th century, its prominent owner organized hundreds of renowned, eclectic gatherings that brought together artists, writers, and other notable figures. Continuing in this celebratory spirit and tradition, MASA and Luhring Augustine’s collaboration activates new dialogues between disparate voices across generations and genres.