Guadalajara90210 presents Jungle Gym, an exhibition by Bayo Alvaro & Yeni Mao ft. Arrogante albino, from March 13rd to April 25th 2021.

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This show was conceived watching Harry Harlow’s experiments about the nature of love and affection, using baby monkeys and artificial mothers. The study seemed apt for this period of pandemia; the way we experience disconnection between us, viscerally, with our bodies. The exhibition creates a structure open to play, the exploration of the uncontrollable, and personal mythologies.

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This piece, fig 26.1 hanuman sun wukong, a jungle gym of painted steel, arises as a support and a representation of play. Its function generates a secure condition, allowing experimentation and haptic play between the materialities of Arrogante albino, Bayo Alvaro, and Yeni Mao. As a house is built, Mao creates the physical and ideological structure of the exhibition; Alvaro occupies this structure with botanical sculptures, encapsulating shared memories that are both hermetic and universal.

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This framework invites the performance group Arrogante albino to respond to these legacies, generating temporary sculptures based on performative processes, giving a new temporality to the vocabulary of materials that constitute the exhibition.

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“Jungle Gym” is a free, experimental and equalized space created by intergenerational queer artists. The three practices react to each other in a dynamic call and response, a dialogue of proximity. 

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Arrogante albino - Héctor Jiménez Castillo, Alejandro Mendicuti, Isaac Márquez, Ruth Ramos, Karla Sosa, Jesús Estrada y Natalia Martínez Mejía.

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https://guadalajara90210.com/project/espacio-guadalajara/2021-jungle-gym/