Works for the Exhibition in Mexico

In these two paintings for the exhibition in Mexico, Ignacio Poblet sees familiar machines in an unexpected light. In Polvo eres, he revisits a yellow truck he remembers from his childhood in Lima. On its grille, he changes a single letter: VOLVO becomes POLVO, the Spanish word for ‘dust’. A childhood memory becomes a reflection on mortality. Dormido en el veneno began with a glimpse through an airport window: the boarding bridge seemed to be swallowing the plane. In the painting, the bridge takes the form of a two-headed serpent from Peru’s Chavín culture.