Enrique López Llamas @LLANO, Mexico City February 01 — March 15, 2025
El otro protagonista de la noche, Enrique López Llamas, curated by Gaby Cepeda at LLANO, Mexico City, 2025
This exhibition is all about repetition and failure, about the Sisyphean trial and error that constitutes both the universal experience of performing adulthood and a life consecrated to art making: the risks and triumphs, the shame and the assurance, the impostor syndrome versus the main character syndrome. The artworks here give form to the artist’s corpus and to his own identity and vice versa, they’re entwined, reflections of each other, duplicates in a series of objects intimately linked, unfolding in the space in ‘mo- ments’ intended to emphasize what binds them: artifice—the fiction of ourselves that overflows into art, and the simulations of art that overwhelm and alienate us from first contact.
The exhibition finds the artist in a completely new condition, as unstable as it is stimulating, a place of undisciplined pictorial representation, a friend of failure, anguish and anxiety; of the endless repetition of trial and error that constitutes both the universal experience of the performance of adulthood and the most intimate feelings of the most unique psyche. The recursive staging of a multiple self: the mimesis of artifice, suffering under the 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩
— Gaby Cepeda
El otro protagonista de la noche, Enrique López Llamas, curated by Gaby Cepeda at LLANO, Mexico City, 2025
El otro protagonista de la noche, Enrique López Llamas, curated by Gaby Cepeda at LLANO, Mexico City, 2025
El otro protagonista de la noche, Enrique López Llamas, curated by Gaby Cepeda at LLANO, Mexico City, 2025
El otro protagonista de la noche, Enrique López Llamas, curated by Gaby Cepeda at LLANO, Mexico City, 2025
El otro protagonista de la noche, Enrique López Llamas, curated by Gaby Cepeda at LLANO, Mexico City, 2025
El otro protagonista de la noche, Enrique López Llamas, curated by Gaby Cepeda at LLANO, Mexico City, 2025
El otro protagonista de la noche, Enrique López Llamas, curated by Gaby Cepeda at LLANO, Mexico City, 2025
El otro protagonista de la noche, Enrique López Llamas, curated by Gaby Cepeda at LLANO, Mexico City, 2025
El otro protagonista de la noche, Enrique López Llamas, curated by Gaby Cepeda at LLANO, Mexico City, 2025
El otro protagonista de la noche, Enrique López Llamas, curated by Gaby Cepeda at LLANO, Mexico City, 2025
El otro protagonista de la noche, Enrique López Llamas, curated by Gaby Cepeda at LLANO, Mexico City, 2025
El otro protagonista de la noche, Enrique López Llamas, curated by Gaby Cepeda at LLANO, Mexico City, 2025
El otro protagonista de la noche, Enrique López Llamas, curated by Gaby Cepeda at LLANO, Mexico City, 2025
El otro protagonista de la noche, Enrique López Llamas, curated by Gaby Cepeda at LLANO, Mexico City, 2025
El otro protagonista de la noche, Enrique López Llamas, curated by Gaby Cepeda at LLANO, Mexico City, 2025
El otro protagonista de la noche, Enrique López Llamas, curated by Gaby Cepeda at LLANO, Mexico City, 2025
El otro protagonista de la noche, Enrique López Llamas, curated by Gaby Cepeda at LLANO, Mexico City, 2025
El otro protagonista de la noche, Enrique López Llamas, curated by Gaby Cepeda at LLANO, Mexico City, 2025
El otro protagonista de la noche, Enrique López Llamas, curated by Gaby Cepeda at LLANO, Mexico City, 2025
El otro protagonista de la noche, Enrique López Llamas, curated by Gaby Cepeda at LLANO, Mexico City, 2025
El otro protagonista de la noche, Enrique López Llamas, curated by Gaby Cepeda at LLANO, Mexico City, 2025
El otro protagonista de la noche, Enrique López Llamas, curated by Gaby Cepeda at LLANO, Mexico City, 2025
El otro protagonista de la noche, Enrique López Llamas, curated by Gaby Cepeda at LLANO, Mexico City, 2025
El otro protagonista de la noche Enrique López Llamas
LLANO, Mexico City February 01 — March 15, 2025
Curation: Gaby Cepeda.
Photography: All images copyright and courtesy of the artist and the gallery.