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4 April – 10 May 2025Vernissage: Friday 4 April, 6 – 8 pm4 rue des Minimes, 75003 ParisGalerie Marguo is proud to present Chilangxs, a vibrant celebration of contemporary artists living and working in Mexico City. Featuring works by Ángela Ferrari, Sandra Leal, Ángela Leyva, and Dennis Miranda Zamorano, the exhibition offers a dynamic reflection of the city’s rich cultural landscape and the diverse voices shaping it today.The four artists included in this exhibition, while each shaped by individual experiences and engaged in distinct—though sometimes intersecting—conceptual and aesthetic concerns, share a visual language, like a local argot, that evokes the textured rhythms of a particular urban life—a vernacular shaped by familiar streets, tropical flora and fauna, and unexpected encounters.
Dennis Miranda ZamoranoHormiga roja, 2024Mixed media on canvas180 x 190 cm (71 x 74 ¾ in) -
Participating Artists
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Ángela Ferrari
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Angela Ferrari is a visual artist whose practice spans painting, textiles, and installation.Rooted in the deconstruction of classical European pictorial traditions, particularly the genre of hunting scenes, Ferrari's evocative work interrogates historical narratives of power, submission, and control. Ferrari reimagines these compositions through deliberate distortions of perspective, chromatic experimentation, and thematic inversions, complicating the relationships between predator and prey, human and animal, hunter and hunted. By engaging with this historically Western, colonial, and patriarchal genre, she disrupts its conventions, reframing it as a space for feminist and ecological inquiry.
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Ángela Ferrari
What about dreams?, 2025Oil on linen
76 x 218 cm (30 x 86 in)
78.5 x 221 cm (31 x 87 in) framed
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Ángela Ferrari
What about dreams in which you can ́t escape?, 2024Oil on linen
80 x 60 cm (31 ½ x 23 ⅝ in)
83 x 63 cm (32 ½ x 25 in) framed -
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Ángela Ferrari
What about dreams in which you, 2025Oil on linen
60 x 80 cm (23 ⅝ x 31 ½ in)
63 x 83 cm (25 x 32 ½ in) framed -
SANDRA LEAL
b. 1980, Monterrey, Mexico -
Under the premise of the feeling and impulse that transitions from contemplation to creative action, Sandra Leal explores the mediums for manipulating light and darkness on canvas or paper.In the process, she erases and marks her strokes, situating them within a buildup of layers that intermittently shifts from depth to surface and vice versa. She subverts the darkness of her background by acknowledging the chromatic situation of the line, without evident discrimination between painting, drawing, and writing, prioritizing both the spatial and organizational potency of light.
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Sandra Leal
Winter, 2025Acrylic and oil on canvas
140 x 160 cm (55 ⅛ x 63 in) -
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Ángela Leyva
b. 1987, Mexico City -
Ángela Leyva explores fragmentation and mutation through the delicate tension between digital technology and painterly tradition.In works like GAN 6 - p1 and GAN - I, fleshy, ambiguous faces emerge from misty, gauze-like surfaces. Initially generated through AI, her figures are then transformed through oil paint into emotive, spectral portraits. Blush tones, blurred boundaries, and fractured expressions evoke a haunting intimacy—inviting viewers into a space between memory and invention, where genetic identity intersects with the uncanny possibilities of machine learning.
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Ángela Leyva
GAN 6, 2025Oil on linen
120 x 120 cm (47 ¼ x 47 ¼ in) -
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Ángela Leyva
GAN 6, 2025Oil on linen
119 x 119 cm (47 x 47 in) -
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DENNIS MIRANDA ZAMORANO
b. 1993, Mexico City -
Dennis Miranda Zamorano's layered, atmospheric paintings emerge from the language of the open-air market, drawing on the chaos and flux of urban life. In Flor y Canto (poesía, arte y símbolo), dense brushstrokes and engraved marks spiral outward, resembling both tropical foliage and graffiti—an immersive thicket where memory and myth intertwine. In Hormiga roja, a colossal red ant rendered in luminous green and crimson appears both menacing and sacred. Zamorano’s mixed-media canvases, weathered and worked through processes of abrasion and chemical dissolution, speak to cycles of accumulation and erosion, mirroring the layered textures of city life.
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Dennis Miranda Zamorano
Hormiga roja, 2024Mixed media on canvas
180 x 190 cm (71 x 74 ¾ in) -
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Dennis Miranda Zamorano
Flor y Canto (poesía, arte y símbolo), 2024Mixed media on canvas
190 x 190 cm (74 ¾ x 74 ¾ in) -
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Dennis Miranda Zamorano
Shrill orchestra (false landscape between mountains of salt), 2025Mixed media on canvas
157.5 x 117 cm (62 x 47 ¼ in) -
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