“IDEA FIJA“, SOLO SHOW 2024

On a high school desk or in the folder of some class, the idle time of adolescence was killed by drawing dicks—always the same, all identical—using a pen, a pencil, or by scratching the wood with a compass. But what was pricking us, what was that fixed idea?

HORNO brings us obsessions that come and go, from erotic fantasies to the doorway of a public bathroom or a bar. From fetishistic stereotypes to the joke of drawing it as a game, with precision in the line and the blur of wear, handling the brush as if one were masturbating. Something both innocent and perverse at once.

There also seems to be a fixation on the idea of the homoerotic, but the proposal is broader—it expands as the pieces are seen. It goes beyond, as long as one is ready to shift the axis of what we understand as sex. Something like the democratization of bodies, of pleasure, of norms.

In any case, the forms emerge like hieroglyphs—a language that is both streetwise and romantic. References to the ’80s, with poetic readings of Ioshua and syrupy undertones, sweet shapes that hypnotize tongues into wanting to lick the paintings. Guilt, if it exists, is left aside; tears become milk or the sweat of intertwined bodies.

This exhibition presents 30 posters invading the space, in contrast with latex and paper, playing with scale and transforming the environment to challenge the viewer. In that sense, the sense of mass reinforces the idea.

Curated by: Lulú Jankilevich
Exhibition design: Charly Herrera