Earthly Paradise: Between Chaos and Stillness
Strappo and mixed media on canvas, 31.5 x 57 in, SOLD
PRG is honored to have our inaugural exhibition with Mexico-based artist, Alfredo Romero. This exhibition unfolds as a temporal journey across distinct bodies of work from over a decade of the artist’s practice. Collected through a technique called strappo, Romero travels the Yucatán Peninsula working with urban remnants directly from the street: walls, layers of paint, signage, sonic traces, and marks left by everyday use. Each work bears witness to a specific moment in time, while simultaneously forming part of a broader narrative about the city, its inhabitants, and the traces they leave behind. The exhibition proposes a non-linear chronological reading, in which the works function as overlapping layers, as a living archive of memories that accumulate, erode, reorganize, and acquire new meanings. Rather than merely documenting the city, Romero listens to it, observes it, and peels it back, revealing the stories that remain embedded in its surfaces.
NOTE: All works can be displayed in the orientation of your choice, vertically or horizontally.