Sofía Táboas presents A Sensible Place, her first solo exhibition at The Gun, Ohio. 

In 1992, Táboas, along with fellow students from the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, helped inaugurate a new era in Mexican contemporary art. As Mexico shifted away from state-controlled cultural production following NAFTA, Táboas and her peers embraced conceptual, installation-based, and materially experimental approaches that broke decisively with nationalist iconographies long dominant in art education. She became a founding member of Temístocles 44, an influential artist-run space housed in an abandoned mansion in Mexico City’s Polanco district. There, Táboas and her collaborators created ephemeral projects responding to the city’s rapid transformations, globalizing economy, and increasingly frenetic sensory landscape.

The works presented at the show, created between 2019 and 2021, reflect the lasting influence of these formative years. Through finely attuned uses of painted linen, stained glass, iron, volcanic stone, and draped textiles, Táboas navigates the relationships between painting, sculpture, and architecture, drawing attention to how we experience space rather than to the objects themselves. Her rigorous spatial orchestration of color and line evokes the dynamic rhythms and shifting geographies of the city—a place that writer Gonzalo Celorio once described as “a city we barely recognize from one day to the next, as though between last night and this, decades or centuries had passed.”

In this installation, Táboas invites viewers to participate in a perceptual encounter shaped by movement, sensation, and the quiet energy that circulates through forms—an echo of the ever-changing urban world from which her work continues to emerge.

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