
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.

Eduardo Sarabia uses narrative as the raw material in his artwork. The language he has developed through the years, and his very personal aesthetic code, comes from his own life experience, but also from a type of fiction that is always accompanied by the construction of a story. Born in Los Angeles to Mexican parents, Sarabia’s work addresses the cultural impact of social phenomena and is permeated by his historical-geographical baggage. The autobiographical references in his works and series are developed to define his experimentation, but are suppressed or veiled to make way for an open interpretation and an emphasis on that which frames the cultural and social-political events in his life. This is most evident in his paintings: personal photographs that are covered by floral-like smears, that not only incite a tautological reflection, but also reference the inner stories that configure his reality, and a process with which we can all relate to, something hovering between oblivion, fiction and live memory.

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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