Patrick McGrath Mu帽iz: Recolecciones/Recollections
The title of this project, Recollections / Recolecciones, immediately invokes the bilingual realm in which these works live. In English, 鈥淩ecollections鈥� often refers to the personal act of remembering鈥攎emories plucked from the past and brought into the present. The Spanish term 鈥淩ecolecciones,鈥� however, can also imply a process of gathering or harvesting, suggesting a more collective, deliberate effort to retrieve what has been sown over time. This subtle linguistic difference reflects the layered themes Mu帽iz explores: the interplay between personal and cultural memory, the yearning for a lost past, and the ongoing process of reassembling meaning from fragments.
The exhibition includes 20 painted altarpieces, canvases and drawings which are testaments not only to the resilience of memory but also to the fragility of what we hold dear. In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Mu帽iz lost both his studio and the childhood home that had sheltered so many of his earliest creative impulses. The storm underscored the impermanence of physical structures, just as it forced him to confront the ephemeral nature of memory and history. Carl Jung once remarked that 鈥淲ho looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.鈥� In this work, the artist looks both within鈥攖hrough the intimate recollection of a past life on an analog island, as well as his lost works鈥攁nd outside, grappling with the collective challenges of a global era shaped by climate change, shifting political fault lines, and rampant consumer culture.
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The title of this project, Recollections / Recolecciones, immediately invokes the bilingual realm in which these works live. In English, 鈥淩ecollections鈥� often refers to the personal act of remembering鈥攎emories plucked from the past and brought into the present. The Spanish term 鈥淩ecolecciones,鈥� however, can also imply a process of gathering or harvesting, suggesting a more collective, deliberate effort to retrieve what has been sown over time. This subtle linguistic difference reflects the layered themes Mu帽iz explores: the interplay between personal and cultural memory, the yearning for a lost past, and the ongoing process of reassembling meaning from fragments.
The exhibition includes 20 painted altarpieces, canvases and drawings which are testaments not only to the resilience of memory but also to the fragility of what we hold dear. In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Mu帽iz lost both his studio and the childhood home that had sheltered so many of his earliest creative impulses. The storm underscored the impermanence of physical structures, just as it forced him to confront the ephemeral nature of memory and history. Carl Jung once remarked that 鈥淲ho looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.鈥� In this work, the artist looks both within鈥攖hrough the intimate recollection of a past life on an analog island, as well as his lost works鈥攁nd outside, grappling with the collective challenges of a global era shaped by climate change, shifting political fault lines, and rampant consumer culture.
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