Every action provokes a reaction in the opposite direction, releasing energy with the potential to generate movement. This group exhibition, which opens the Tamayo Museum's 2026 exhibition program, emphasizes the power of action and explores how the vital impulse to move also generates collective synergy.
In a context of increasing paralysis and amidst a trend toward immobility stemming from automation and the use of new technologies in daily life, the biological need to move the body is ignored. Physical activity accompanies the survival instinct in humans, animals, and other organisms. Furthermore, moving in a systematic and uniform way generates choreographic patterns, perhaps involuntary.
The exhibition brings together works by Mexican and international artists from different generations, inviting the viewer to rediscover the power of individual movement and accompanying the will of collective movement. When bodily movement leaves no physical trace and disappears, what evidence remains of bodies performing an action?
Participating artists: Anthony McCall, Brendan Fernandes, Bruce Nauman, Calixto Ramírez, Cally Spooner, Julio LeParc, Mayra Silva, Marcelo Brodsky, Renée Rhodes, Rita Ponce de León, Samara Colina, Trisha Brown and William Forsythe.