POPULATION - Proyecto Arte Gallery, Guadalajara, Jal, Mex. 2018

POPULATION by Guillermo Celis presents a series of exercises focused on geometric experimentation, and from there represent the growth of the human population from 1965 to 2015.

The exhibition evokes not only issues related to the current global, social and environmental crisis, but also the search for perfection as a form of discipline and control. The ink gestures on the paper of delicate graphs and grids, dynamic lines and thick borders represent fragments of the different continents to indicate human augmentation over a 50-year period.

Within each cartography Celis draws straight lines in different directions, each line representing one million people in the population, directly exposing problems related to the concentration and distribution of the population. On the other hand, the repetition of lines provokes internal reflection. Celis attempts to manually represent a perfect geometry, however, as the viewer gets closer, they notice the subtle pressure of the human hand and the force that the stylus applies to the paper, resulting in an inconsistency of saturation and shape in the strokes. Geometry is a system of abstract order linked to the relationship between forms, but it is also an ideal. It refers to a perfection of form that does not really exist within the natural world.

Text: Viridiana Mayagoitia
Curator: Alberto López Corcuera