COSMOS
Eduardo Terrazas
June 15 – September 14, 2019
Curator: Paola Santoscoy

COSMOS is one of several series that Eduardo Terrazas (Jalisco, México, 1936) has been working on since the early seventies under a broader umbrella he refers to as “possibilities of a structure,” expressing a clear interest in performing a permanent inquiry into the relationship between art and life. Various times coexist in Eduardo Terrazas’s COSMOS: westernized and non-westernized time; fast and slow time; the time of the relationship with the environment and the time of the relationship with oneself. From this series onwards, Terrazas establishes in his work and thought an essential connection with artisanal production and geometry as a universal language. In the late sixties, Terrazas met Huichol craftsman Santos Motoapohua de la Torre de Santiago, with whom he began a collaborative relationship that continues to this day. Terrazas observed and learned from him how to apply the technique used by the Huichol to capture scenes related to gods and symbols from their worldview, with a sacred geometry that emerges from meditative states or trances. In this technique, threads of yarn are meticulously applied on wooden boards or frames coated with Campeche wax, forming sections of color and creating scenes that emerge in different shades depending on how the strands are placed. This encounter is attended back and forth by creative thinking that evades folklorism.