Enrique López Llamas

Enrique López Llamas (Aguascalientes, MX – 1993) Enrique López Llamas’ work explores current phenomena through the appropriation and reinterpretation of strategies and images from art history and his personal experience. Through memory, fiction, humor, and nostalgia, he develops ideas that translate into media such as painting, video, performance, and installation. His projects are characterized by an interest in narrative speculation as a tool to address the cultural and power structures that shape our times.

LLANO is a Mexican platform focused on artists whose production is the result of long-term research. Their body of work is often related to science, history, technology as well as forgotten wisdom and unforeseen communities. LLANO highlights thought processes and thorough research, creating crosspoints and strong bonds with the work from an immersive standpoint. It aims to take the spectator beyond traditional exhibition formats and deeper into the original source of the work. LLANO is an all-around project where exhibition space evolves into many shapes: from an open field in the top of a former textile factory in Mexico City to volcanos, jungles, deserts, oceans, mountains, as well as urban landscapes and historical landmarks. The diverse projects it presents begin as expeditions that go directly into the context that sourced inspiration and information for the artist and are the natural niches to where the work belongs. LLANO’s intention is to build bridges between the spectator and the profound reasons that hold artworks together, in order to experiment art from a new and different standpoint, both literally and symbolically. ...