Deluge/Diluvio. With @jab_garcia_ and the most incredible dress design by @gabysalasj . I had already been experimenting with red fabrics to explore the idea of lava as a metaphor of the destructive and creative force that dances in our veins. However, I needed to complementary element of agua and Gaby created a beautiful dress to play with that idea. But it needed to be more surreal, more like a waterfall inundating the entry space of @casa_pedregal . After buying half of all the blue pleated fabric en el Centro Historic, Tthis is the result of that exploration/collaboration.
Ode to Mexican Pink / Oda al color rosa mexicano... There's a shade of pink that belongs entirely to Mexico — festive, warm, alive — Luis Barragán turned it into an architectural resource: not simply decoration. Walls that "feel." /// Hay un rosa que le pertenece completamente a México — festivo, cálido, vivo. Barragán lo sabía y lo convirtió en recurso arquitectónico: no en decoración, sino emoción hecha muro.
I was invited by my good friend @danieljohnsonis to be part of his “Petrificado” series made at Casa Barragán in México City.
An afternoon, two humans, walls, ceilings, floors, a sphere and a camera.
My body freely taking space.
Thoughts and feelings connecting by movement.
Memory of the once so called presence.
Time that is captured by shadow and light.
Thank you dear friend.
Fire holds no form. Explorations of ephemerality in Luis Barragan’s @casa_pedregal . Part of my exhibition Petrificado showcased in @tetetlan . Framed artworks available
Este sábado 31 de enero, Tetetlán ofrecerá un coctel para celebrar la clausura de la exposición Petrificado de Daniel N. Johnson en Casa Pedregal, la icónica residencia de 1947 de Luis Barragán.
La muestra propone un diálogo sensible entre la mirada del artista y fotógrafo Daniel N. Johnson y la obra arquitectónica de Barragán.
El resultado es una serie de 45 imágenes que activan el espacio y lo transforman en una experiencia profundamente poética, donde arquitectura, luz y tiempo se entrelazan para invadir los sentidos.
Daniel N. Johnson Petrificado
Cóctel de clausura Sábado 31 de enero
🍸A partir de las 6:45 PM
Tetetlán Av. de las Fuentes 180 Jardines del Pedregal, CDMX A 5 minutos del MUAC y del Espacio Escultórico
Abierto de 7:00 am a 1:00 am
PETRIFICADO — Daniel Johnson
Petrificado es una invitación a mirar el movimiento desde la quietud. En esta exposición, Daniel N. Johnson dialoga con Casa Pedregal para transformar la danza, el cuerpo y el instante en imágenes cargadas de emoción.
Cada fotografía es un gesto para tocar lo efímero y dejarlo habitar en la memoria.
Ven a conocer y explorar esta visión.
*Obras disponibles para venta.
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Dancing with Architecture
To enter into deep dialogue with how the memory of a space informs the self. When invited by my friend @danieljohnsonis to dance with Barragan’s legacy, I bow to what the volcanic rock of this place invokes in me. It speaks to me of rivers of life force once liquid fire now petrified black rock, carrying the ancient memories of this Mexican land.
My body is made of the same mineral. Dancing with them is to honor what I’m made of and what I’m capable of.
When Daniel invited me to dance at Casa Pedregal for his art residency exploring the relationship between the artist and the muse and memory of place, it was the same week I had stopped breastfeeding my son after 17 months of total devotion to my own life-giving rivers.
Dancing then as an empty vessel, exhausted and in full reverence to the miraculous mothering journey: Paradoxical, monumental and beautifully mundane, to dance becomes a ritual of salvation. A spark is ignited when I’m surrendered to the current that gets active during the creative process.
And now, seeing the gorgeous photos he created is truly an honor to call him my dear friend and collaborator and that we get to see and embody the world in our own creative ways.
You can take a look at the exhibit at @tetetlan He’s selling his beautiful pieces. DM if you’re interested in getting one for your place.
PETRIFICADO by @danieljohnsonis is a powerful exploration through the bodies of 10 musas danzantes. It was an honor to be part of this performative research, captured through Daniel’s lens.
On view at @tetetlan until the end of January. Come see me in this new facet. ✨
Thanks to my favorite mexican fashion designer @gabysalasj to be part of this project.
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