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

https://zsonamaco.com

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.

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.

Installation Images

Image Source: https://www.artsy.net/show/lns-gallery-lns-gallery-at-zona-maco-2023?sort=partner_show_position

Image Gallery

.. a group of people not clearly described, 2022
mixed media collage on cotton watercolor paper
22 x 30 in
55.9 x 76 cm
.. past of HAVE, 2022
mixed media collage on cotton watercolor paper
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.. of a particular type, 2022
mixed media collage on cotton watercolor paper
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.. greater than usual level, 2022
mixed media collage on cotton watercolor paper
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.. feeling of expectation and desire, 2022
mixed media collage on cotton watercolor paper
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.. having the purpose of, 2022
mixed media collage on cotton watercolor paper
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.. a group that includes the speaker, 2022
mixed media collage on cotton watercolor paper
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.. you, I, and another or others, 2022
mixed media collage on cotton watercolor paper
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.. past of DO, 2022
mixed media collage on cotton watercolor paper
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55.9 x 76 cm
.. used as a negative, 2022
mixed media collage on cotton watercolor paper
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.. assess the extent, quality, value, or effect of, 2022
mixed media collage on cotton watercolor paper
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.. and, therefore, or to a great extent, 2022
mixed media collage on cotton watercolor paper
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55.9 x 76 cm
.. to blunder in the choice of, 2022
mixed media collage on cotton watercolor paper
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55.9 x 76 cm
.. past of BE, 2022
mixed media collage on cotton watercolor paper
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.. fictitious, invented, 2022
mixed media collage on cotton watercolor paper
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55.9 x 76 cm