Sofía Táboas, Nado de fondo, 2024
Sofía Táboas, Nado de fondo, 2024
Sofía Táboas, boceto para Nado de fondo, 2024
Sofía Táboas
(Ciudad de México, México, 1968)
Artist who researches how natural and manufactured spaces are constructed, transformed, thought of and perceived. She uses materials as the marrow of the content and for constructing her installations and walk-through structures, using contrasts or dichotomies that seek to rarify their familiarity. In many instances her work generates a threshold or a limit between different elements that can be dissimilar or even irreconcilable. The resulting choices skew to forming habitats, perception- and movement- exercises and even new protozoan lives. Starting in the 1990s, Táboas was a founding member at Mexico City’s Temístocles 44 alternative space. Standout solo exhibitions include dia cronía at Casa Ortega in Mexico City, 2023; Gama térmica at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, in 2022, and also at Mexico City’s Museo JUMEX from 2021 to 2022; Piedra principio at the Fundación RAC in Pontevedra, 2021; Clave intermedia at Galería Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, 2019; Azul sólido, mounted at the Fundación CAB in Burgos; Superficies límite at Mexico City’s Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, in 2011 plus 2002’s Silvestre at the same city’s Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros.
Nado de fondo, 2024
Venetian mosaic tiles, cement, stone, and steel
For more than two decades, Sofía Táboas has considered displacement in sculpture using objects that burst into space and generate a sense of estrangement—seemingly out of place. These explorations are linked to Táboas’ interest in Venetian mosaic titles, a material that implies the presence of water. In Nado de fondo, a public piece that recreates a cross-section of a swimming pool, the artist takes up the ideas central to her work in a sculpture that invites interaction and causes people to change their course to circumvent it. This piece considers how changing course can generate a new point of view of one’s landscape.
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