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Dorian Ulises López Macías

DORIAN ULISES LÓPEZ MACÍAS

Mexicano OMR 2 February–17 April 2026 Mexico City
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The work of Dorian Ulises López Macías (Aguascalientes, Mexico, 1980) operates at the intersection of photography, archive, and contemporary visual culture. Since 2010, he has developed Mexicano, an ever-growing archive that brings together photographs captured across different regions of the country and functions as a critical re-reading of Mexican aesthetics. Rather than documenting identities, his practice interrogates the systems of representation that have historically shaped notions of beauty.

Through a candid and at times playful gaze, López Macías shifts the center of the image toward bodies, gestures, and styles drawn from the streets of Mexico, activating a vernacular cosmology in which the popular, the queer, and the everyday emerge as legitimate forms of presence. In his images, appearance does not operate as a surface, but as language: a site where desire, belonging, and visual dignity are negotiated.

MEXICANO, the first in-depth reading of the archive, will be presented at BODEGA in February 2026 and offers a reflection on more than a decade of images through a contemporary consideration of appearance, aesthetics, and beauty. The exhibition understands the archive not as accumulation, but as structure: a visual system that reconfigures dominant imaginaries and affirms beauty as a situated cultural practice.

Courtesy OMR.

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OMR is a contemporary art gallery in Mexico City, founded by Patricia Ortiz Monasterio and Jaime Riestra in 1983. Over the past four decades, the gallery has fostered and developed the careers of numerous emerging and established artists throughout Latin America and globally; OMR has established itself as a pioneering Mexican contemporary art space, presenting over 400 exhibitions across all media and genres, and participating in art fairs around the world.

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Mexico City Córdoba 100, Roma Norte
OMR contemporary art gallery in Mexico City Mexico
OMR
Córdoba 100, Roma Norte, Mexico City, Mexico
+52 555 207 1080
http://www.omr.art

Opening hours
Tuesday – Friday: 10am – 6pm

Saturday: 11am – 4pm
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