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Rodrigo Ramírez Rodríguez Lonely Never Knows Jealousy, Only Despair

May 23—June 28, 2026

Rodrigo Ramírez Rodríguez (Mexico City, 1988) works across painting, sculpture, installation, and moving image to investigate the dissolution of bodies, images, and perception through material processes. His practice approaches matter as an active and affective agent capable of hosting, distorting, and transforming images, producing unstable environments where the boundaries between self and world, human and nonhuman, begin to collapse. Through optical devices, fragmented surfaces, and visceral material relations, his works explore perception as a field of forces and time as an anachronic, dysfunctional experience shaped by affect, mediation, and disintegration.

Working through painting as well as immersive installations, Ramírez is interested in how images exceed representation and dissolve into sensation through processes of distortion, embodiment, and material corruption. His works often construct unstable perceptual environments where light, matter, and the body enter into relations of friction and mutual transformation, opening spaces where the self becomes fragmented and unstable.

Ramírez lives and works in Mexico City. Recent exhibitions include The Sum of Our Parts (Swivel Gallery, New York, 2024), To Breathe, To Walk (Murmurs, Los Angeles), NEXUS (New Image Art, Los Angeles, 2023), Anteanoche (Commonwealth and Council, Mexico City, 2023), Glóbulo (Museo Los Pinos, Mexico City, 2023), and Neogroto Creatures (Croma, Mexico City, 2022). Past solo exhibitions include Por Abrasión o Contagio (Bodega OMR, Mexico City, 2026), While Being Plasmic Membrane (Swivel Gallery, New York, 2025), Dulces Espinas en la Piel (Galería Luis Adelantado, Mexico City, 2021), and La Imagen Ausente (Galería Luis Adelantado, Mexico City, 2018).

The exhibition Lonely Never Knows Jealousy, Only Despair by Mexican artist Rodrigo Ramírez Rodríguez grapples with the simultaneous attraction and repulsion to darkness. A darkness conceived as a liminal space where painting and cinema meet, where images and surfaces disappear, where the limits between what is seen and unseen, felt and undergone, dissolve. In this new solo show — functioning as a shadow sequel to his previous exhibition in Mexico City, By Abrasion or Contagion, which dealt with the endless blending of images — Rodrigo Ramirez continues to explore his favorite encounter between painting and sculpture as mediums, and expanded cinema and genre films as main frames of reference and thinking, now through a violent dislocation of space, time, body and self.

Words by Anaïs Lepage