AHORA

Antonio Vidal, Karla Ekaterine Canseco, Rodrigo Ramírez, Marek Wolfryd, Ángela Leyva, Alejandro García Contreras, Luis Alonso Sánchez, Andrea Ferrero, Magdalena Petroni, César Rangel Ramos, Armando Rosales, Rodrigo Red Sandoval, Chavis Mármol, and Rodrigo Echeverría

Swivel Gallery is pleased to present AHORA, a pop-up group exhibition presented at Isla, Karen Huber’s project space, bringing together works by Antonio Vidal, Karla Ekaterine Canseco, Rodrigo Ramírez, Marek Wolfryd, Ángela Leyva, Alejandro García Contreras, Lucía Vidales, Luis Alonso Sánchez, Andrea Ferrero, Magdalena Petroni, César Rangel Ramos, Armando Rosales, Rodrigo Red Sandoval, Chavis Mármol, and Rodrigo Echeverría.  

February 3rd - February 25th, 2026

ISLA Project Space, Bucareli 120, Colonia Centro, Juárez, Cuauhtémoc, 06040 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico

AHORA brings together fifteen artists whose practices engage the present as a site of accumulation, friction, and becoming. Presented at ISLA, the project space of Karen Huber, the exhibition considers how contemporary image making, in painting and its expanded forms, operates within a moment defined by instability, saturation, and heightened awareness of material and social conditions.

Across the exhibition, the works share a commitment to material thinking as a way of locating experience, functioning not as a passive ground but as an active field where memory, labor, affect, and cultural reference converge. Painting extends outward into object, structure, and spatial intervention, while sculptural and hybrid practices draw the logic of painting into three dimensions. What emerges is a collective exploration of how meaning is produced through physical engagement with materials and through sustained attention to how forms occupy space and time. The artists in AHORA work within a range of visual languages that move between abstraction and figuration, narrative and sensation, control and rupture. These shifts are not stylistic exercises but reflections of a shared condition in which images are unstable and continually redefined. 

The exhibition positions artistic practice as a form of resistance, one that insists on embodied experience and sustained attention as critical acts. AHORA presents the present moment not as something to be captured or resolved, but as something to be inhabited. Through diverse yet interconnected practices, the exhibition offers a collective reflection on how artists continue to work through uncertainty, complexity, and change, using form as a way to think, to feel, and to remain attentive to the realities of the present.