Ruben Gutierrez

GESTOS DE CONTINUIDAD
January 20, 2026

This solo exhibition by Ruben Gutierrez marks a pivotal moment in his international practice and positions Monterrey as an active site of production rather than a passive backdrop. The exhibition brings together painting, drawing, video, film fragments, and a fully playable video game. These elements coexist as parts of a single system where no medium dominates another.

The exhibition does not follow a linear narrative. It unfolds through gestures that are visual, digital, and collaborative. Images circulate, repeat, and reappear across formats, questioning where authorship begins and where it fades. Painting behaves like a suspended frame. Video functions as a moving drawing. The video game introduces choice, error, and chance as compositional forces. Meaning is not delivered. It is activated through attention and movement.

Developed in close dialogue with Louky Keijsers, the project approaches collaboration as structure rather than signature. Their exchange resists spectacle and instead emphasizes process, shared authorship, and subtle shifts in control. What emerges is not a partnership in the conventional sense, but a porous field in which ideas overlap and transform one another.

Presented at Colector Monterrey, the exhibition places the city within a broader post-digital condition where images no longer belong to a single medium and continuity must be constantly constructed. The exhibition functions as an open system that remains unstable, intelligent, and deliberately unresolved. Participation is optional. Attention is not.

- Colector