They Had Such High Hopes For Us. We Did Not Measure, So Mistakes Were Made.

Group Exhibition – LnS Gallery at Zona Maco

Zona Maco
LnS Gallery : Booth D11
February 8, 2023 – February 12, 2023

Centro Citibanamex
Avenida del Conscripto 311, Lomas de Sotelo
Mexico City, Mexico

LnS Gallery is honored to present a petite collective of represented artists for the 2023 edition of Zona Maco.

This group exhibition weaves the artistic stylings of Natalia Garcia-Lee, Jennifer Basile, Ernesto Briel and Tony Vazquez-Figueroa to dialogue across decades, styles, and mediums, and reflect on the complexities of our existence – its advances, issues, solutions, and achievements – unbound to a particular time or place.

Each artist contributes to a greater visual archive of our continual history as a species. This group show is curated to allow art to employ the documentative aspect of its nature.

.. a group of people not clearly described
.. past of HAVE
.. of a particular type
.. greater than usual level
.. feeling of expectation and desire
.. having the purpose of
.. a group that includes the speaker
.. you, I, and another or others
.. past of DO
.. used as a negative
.. assess the extent, value, quality or effect of
.. and, therefore or to a greater extent
.. to blunder in the choice of
.. past of BE
.. fictitious, invented

They Had Such High Hopes For Us.
We Did Not Measure,
So Mistakes Were Made.

…a series of collages by Natalia Garcia-Lee

The titular phase of this series acts as the skeleton on which the message of the piece is built. As a species, the continual and everlasting goal of humans is progress; in any definitive module of life. Each generation is looking to the next with idealist dreams of the future. However, in any concurrent moment the downfalls, or ‘mistakes’ of an era can be traced back to the lack of foresight of its predecessors.

While ‘they’ are generations past, and ‘us’ is our current moment, They Had Such High Hopes For Us. We Did Not Measure, So Mistakes Were Made, is Garcia-Lee’s exploration of the fragility and fabrication of the expectations we define for ourselves and continually fall short of.

Each piece in the series is complete in its own right, however as a group, the works define the overarching title and contextualize one to the next, paralleling the nature of time as the meanings of ‘past’, ‘present’ and ‘future’ are all contingent on each other’s existence.