JO-HS presents a solo exhibition by Rodrigo Echeverría (Mexico, 1988), featuring three large paintings and eight smaller works on wood panels. A self-taught artist, Echeverría has forged a singular visual language that resists classification—one where baroque exuberance meets contemporary disquiet.
Rooted in a conservative and Catholic upbringing, his paintings confront idealized notions of spirituality to reveal a raw and unguarded vision of the self. Figures merge, deform, and dissolve into one another, inhabiting a universe in constant transformation. His contemporaneity lies in creating spaces where hierarchies collapse and the boundaries of form, color, and meaning are ceaselessly undone.
Through a process of archaeological, poetic, and pictorial weathering, Echeverría hacks the visual codes inherited from diverse cultures and epochs—pre-Hispanic, Catholic, classical Egyptian, among others—to expose and reprogram their underlying logics. His practice rewires the canons of representation, language, and spirituality, transforming them into an open-source system available for collective reimagining. By hacking the codes of the canon, he dismantles the rigid architectures of meaning and questions the politics and structures that shape how we imagine—opening possibilities for different ways of seeing, feeling, and becoming.
Echeverría’s compositions oscillate between chaos and delicacy—between grace and disgrace—proposing a dystopian yet hopeful vision of existence, one where dissolution becomes creation and every form is both ending and beginning. His paintings are not simply images but acts of reprogramming, where imagination becomes a form of resistance and renewal.
