Casa Wabi Puerto Escondido
The exhibition program at Casa Wabi Puerto Escondido occupies a 450 m2 Tadao Ando designed gallery attached to the larger Casa Wabi complex. The goal of the program is to create shared experiences between work of unusual sensitivity, the foundation’s architecture, and the everyday life of the region. These exchanges, it is hoped, encourage understandings—between residents, the local communities, and the artists of nature, their work, and the fabric of society—that promote civic development.
Current Exhibition
El pasado nunca es el mismo | Jose Dávila
February 6, 2024 – January 6, 2025
Casa Wabi Puerto Escondido
Jose Dávila (b. 1974, Mexico) is best-known for balancing acts of commonplace materials that poignantly suggest the interpersonal entanglements and networks of dependence that constitute society. And with these, reflecting his own deep idealism and optimism, he makes obliquely eloquent arguments for the maintenance and care of those networks. Further, these balancing acts tend to make us feel that investing our awareness in webs of contingency and fragility is virtuous, even heroic. In El pasado nunca es el mismo, his site-specific exhibition for Casa Wabi, using nothing more than construction-site refuse collected from all over Puerto Escondido and a concept called collective memory, Dávila has set out to make concrete an idea of honoring the past and inhabiting history very different from the way that monuments have traditionally commemorated people and events.
