Uni– verses - María Edwards - Exhibition design

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Uni– verses | María Edwards

Exhibition design

Uni– verses is the latest show by contemporary artist María Edwards, curated by Alexia Tala, and currently on view through April 8th at Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo gallery in Mexico City.

The exhibition's logo and color palette came from the artist's notebook cover, in which she had written the title with a pastel pencil. Shortly after finishing this project, I worked on the exhibition's book, which you can see here, and is currently under consideration for printing.

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About the exhibition:

Edwards’ work has developed around the role of herself as an active observer of reality, an agent producing object-scenes from a collection of random elements she finds and selects. From these journeys she creates relationships and constellations between objects or fragments, guided by intuition and amazement that find their correlation in the strong influence of scientific and philosophical thinking. These constellations, which take the form of installations, notebooks and chalkboards, among others, relocate that which has been discarded or has gone unnoticed by others, giving it a new presence and appearance.

Continuing, but at the same time turning her research around one of the most transversal themes of her work, the astronomical universe, the artist presents three new installations, with subtle mentions of the objectual world of music: a mobile construction, blackboards and a machine-like object. The first of these stands out for its scale by presenting us with a constellation of transfigured musical scores, which are invisible as such in their continuous, dynamic and innocent movement. This piece dialogues with the other two, which emphasize the tension between reinterpretation and objectual uselessness, generating an atmosphere of fragility, lightness and balance.