SALÓN ACME NO. 10 + PLANTA LIBRE
Views of the Planta Libre Project Room booth with works by artists Pilo Aceves and Omaris Molina at Salón Acme no. 10.
Art fair
09-12.02.2023
Planta Libre
Salón ACME
Mexico City, Mexico
Salón ACME is an art platform created by and for artists, which seeks to give visibility, impulse, and dissemination to creators that develop their work both in Mexico and abroad. Guest projects involve national and foreign galleries. Each gallery invites an artist (whose work may or may not be represented by the gallery) to show a specific project in one of the spaces of General Prim. Participating in the Project Room section allows the galleries to exhibit more experimental proposals than in the common format of art fairs. Planta Libre was invited by guest curator, now director of Salón Acme, Ana Castella to participate in this no.10 Salón Acme and present “Agrogonía” by artists Pilo Aceves and Omaris Molina.
Agrogonía is a project developed by artist Pilo Aceves during the pandemic as an exercise to record the agricultural zone between the border with Baja California and Sonora. This region known as the valley of Mexicali and San Luis is where the Colorado River delta flows.
The work presented in Salón Acme no. 10 displays the many ways to observe the land, from the aerial views of the fields that shape neat and almost perfect geometries to photographs of the microorganisms that inhabit the soil around different sites. Pilo also portrays the prevailing social situation in everyday life in multiple formats, from digital illustrations to collages.
From the idea of Agrogonía, Omaris Molina creates ¡Adiós Pueblo! a performance that talks about the drug trafficking issue in the Valley of Mexicali and San Luis. Representing a "puntero" (a person dedicated to guarding a territory guarded by certain organized crime groups), Omaris wears a jacket with thorns, symbolizing the aggressiveness of the desert, and a golden gun, representing opulence and power. After anchoring a beer, the movements become rough, strong, and full of violence. Omaris' performance is dirty, creating a distressing space within the exhibition.
Production: Minoru Kiyota and Mayté Miranda
Exhibition design: Minoru Kiyota
Curatorial proposal: Mayté Miranda and Rosela del Bosque
Project coordination: Minoru Kiyota, Pilo Aceves, Omaris Molina, and Mayté Miranda
Images: María Reneé Quiroz
This project was possible thanks to the institutional liaison of Gabriela Gutiérrez Montoya.
Pilo Aceves and Omaris Molina in Salón Acme no.10.
Views of the Planta Libre Project Room booth at Salón Acme no. 10.
Images from the performance “¡Adiós Pueblo!” in the Project Room booth of Planta Libre. 
Works from Agrogonía by artist Pilo Aceves.