DANIEL GUZMÁN

‘The word has been given to us as a parable, not to distance us from things, but to have them close, even closer, like when we recognise someone familiar in a face, like when a hand brushes against us’. –Giorgio Agamben

‘To be born is a mystery; the place of our birth imposes a history and a language on us, an origin. We begin to walk through life trying to assemble the narrative, the story of that origin, the dead house, and the fire of the mystery that brought us to life.

The new drawings are a note, an attempt to recount a personal experience of the world we inhabit among the ruins of creator myths—the dead house and the metaphysical fire; language that sweeps away everything we once knew.

A kind of prequel, in the manner of classic science fiction films like Alien and Star Wars. We are now on the quest of the story of the man who should be dead.’–Daniel Guzmán. Guadalajara, November 2023.