Four Minutes of Darkness, Eduardo Sarabia's inaugural solo exhibition at OMR, unfolds as a cartography of the artist's intricate visual language and marks the second in a trilogy of exhibitions dedicated to the total eclipse of the sun.

Evoking the opacity and shade cast by a solar eclipse, the exhibition explores the power of imagination and the desire to project the future. Through an architectural structure reminiscent of a chapel, the artist expresses his fascination with ancestral, alchemical, and mystical knowledge. A stained glass ceiling casts soft light as the main protagonist, illuminating a fountain emerging from darkness and awakening various characters. The fountain, with 'fuente' meaning both 'fountain' and 'source' in Spanish, pays homage to the wellsprings of inspiration and the information we draw from.

A surrounding garden stems from the artist's deeply personal language such as references inspired by his childhood: his grandfather's treasure hunt tales, reflected in images of coins or diamonds, an intergenerational love for baseball, as well as a profound interest in Mexico's endemic species. Alongside the traditional evocation of the sacred ceiba in the imagination of Sarabia, elements such as sea and vegetation, earth and universe, light and darkness, microstories, and the crow – a newfound symbol of power – all interweave in this exhibition.

Press release courtesy OMR.