EVA VANDERHORST-AYACHE - CARAS INTERIORES (EL CAMINO)

Eva Vanderhorst-Ayache, is a visual artist whose practice moves across painting, installation, writing, and performance, exploring notions of forgetting, presence, and the body. Her paintings are created on worn bedsheets collected throughout her journeys—surfaces already lived in, charged with other lives. A fragmented memory is inscribed within them, inherited from a Franco-Algerian postcolonial context marked by loss, taboos, and zones of silence. On the fabric, unstable figures emerge at the threshold between erasure and appearance. These forms take shape within modular sculptural metal structures, where the softness of textiles is set against the rigidity of the frame, holding the images in a state of suspension. In this first exhibition in Mexico, "Caras interiores" ("Inner faces"), the work opens up to the notion of repair as a space of metamorphosis. The wound is no longer rupture, but passage — a place from which dream, aura, and color become the site of their transformation. In this gesture, the angel circulates as a liminal presence, moving through interstices. The butterfly appears as a figure of shifting states — fragile, elusive — recalling the passage from a terrestrial body into air, from matter into elevation, from the visible into another regime of perception. The butterfly carries within it the memory of this ascent: that of a body which, once crawling, tore itself from the ground to reach the sky. Front-facing gazes leave no distance. They hold us as witnesses. They confront what circulates within us — faces, affects, memories — and activate a direct experience of what moves, unravels, and reconfigures itself. Here, something persists: a discreet but tenacious joy, inscribed in the density of a life lived through its transformations.