José León Cerrillo
01 Jun - 31 Jul 2007
© José León Cerrillo
Comunicación anorexica , 2007
15 ploter prints on cotton paper and 15 Pantone cardboards
65 x 50 cm. each
(JoL 111)
Comunicación anorexica , 2007
15 ploter prints on cotton paper and 15 Pantone cardboards
65 x 50 cm. each
(JoL 111)
JOSÉ LEÓN CERRILLO
"Futuro anterior."
1. According to the dictionary, the “future perfect” tense is used to indicate an order of precedence, referring to an action that will end at a certain time in the future before another action.
Futuro anterior is a project that reaches outside the gallery’s space; it is a meta-discourse that posits the repetition of patterns as presages of possible futures, and also an examination of the act of communication. More interested in the notion of mise en scène than in that of installation per se, José León Cerrillo (San Luís Potosí, Mexico, 1976) presents an exhibition that blurs the boundaries between painting and sculpture. The work slips between totality and fragmentation, appealing in a sense to a grammar and a possible construction of a system of signification.
2. In reference to the Lacanian discourse, Futuro anterior implies the constant compulsion to repeat: a state where we may reveal the differences contained in patterns—in this case, the subtle differences involved in time—by becoming aware of what remains the same. With discreet changes, the work resembles previously presented work, the way it deals with space brings back memories. It looks the same but it isn’t: the more things are repeated, the more obvious their differences become.
3. One of the current show’s projects is a discursive collaboration between José León Cerrillo and New Humans—a Brooklyn-based collective made up of Mika Tajima and Howie Chen. The New Humans had invited Cerrillo to work with them after they communicated with each other in February 2007. For that project, Cerrillo made a poster-like silkscreen edition advertising a performance by the New Humans in 2025 at the Espacio escultórico in CU (the main university campus). This project maintains a relationship with Futuro anterior. This time it was Cerrillo who proposed the collaboration: that the musicians play back their previously recorded piece as a musical background allowing new interpretations of preexisting patterns. He thus clones the band’s members, so to speak, associating those who originally performed it with those who perform it in the present.
4. Futuro anterior. The message contains the idea, the possibility of being decoded. Paraphrasing Lacan, “communication is a successful misunderstanding.”
"Futuro anterior."
1. According to the dictionary, the “future perfect” tense is used to indicate an order of precedence, referring to an action that will end at a certain time in the future before another action.
Futuro anterior is a project that reaches outside the gallery’s space; it is a meta-discourse that posits the repetition of patterns as presages of possible futures, and also an examination of the act of communication. More interested in the notion of mise en scène than in that of installation per se, José León Cerrillo (San Luís Potosí, Mexico, 1976) presents an exhibition that blurs the boundaries between painting and sculpture. The work slips between totality and fragmentation, appealing in a sense to a grammar and a possible construction of a system of signification.
2. In reference to the Lacanian discourse, Futuro anterior implies the constant compulsion to repeat: a state where we may reveal the differences contained in patterns—in this case, the subtle differences involved in time—by becoming aware of what remains the same. With discreet changes, the work resembles previously presented work, the way it deals with space brings back memories. It looks the same but it isn’t: the more things are repeated, the more obvious their differences become.
3. One of the current show’s projects is a discursive collaboration between José León Cerrillo and New Humans—a Brooklyn-based collective made up of Mika Tajima and Howie Chen. The New Humans had invited Cerrillo to work with them after they communicated with each other in February 2007. For that project, Cerrillo made a poster-like silkscreen edition advertising a performance by the New Humans in 2025 at the Espacio escultórico in CU (the main university campus). This project maintains a relationship with Futuro anterior. This time it was Cerrillo who proposed the collaboration: that the musicians play back their previously recorded piece as a musical background allowing new interpretations of preexisting patterns. He thus clones the band’s members, so to speak, associating those who originally performed it with those who perform it in the present.
4. Futuro anterior. The message contains the idea, the possibility of being decoded. Paraphrasing Lacan, “communication is a successful misunderstanding.”