Ernesto Ríos's new exhibition that fuses art, science, and technology

Codes: Ernesto Ríos's new exhibition that fuses art, science, and technology

The exhibition explores the invisible languages that shape reality through painting, ceramics, and transdisciplinary art.

Visual artist and interdisciplinary photographer Ernesto Ríos presents his latest solo exhibition, titled "Codes," at the Central Gallery of the San Luis Potosí Arts Center. This exhibition interweaves art, science, and technology to reveal the hidden patterns that shape reality. In the artist's words, "Through a mixed methodology, I aim to develop new visual reconfigurations and deconstructions of forms, concepts, and symbols, interconnected with personal interpretations of time and space as dynamic, complex, and multidimensional phenomena."

Curator Gabriela Gorab emphasizes that "the works gathered in Codes emerge from an investigation where science, art, geometry, introspection, and memory intertwine as possible codes of life and evolution." In each piece, the artist constructs visual plots that evoke algorithms, fractals, spores, vibrations, or organic structures, in a journey that moves from control to accident.

The ceramics, crafted using traditional techniques such as raku, incorporate a physical and symbolic dimension into the exhibition. Made with the four elements—earth, fire, air, and water—their textures and crackles evoke the ancestral, the volcanic, and the tactile.

Ríos combines geometric precision with a spiritual sensibility, articulating a visual language that questions the boundaries between the body, memory, and the systems that surround us. With an artistic practice that includes painting, sculpture, photography, Net.art, video, and alternative media, his work also draws on mythological elements, numerical sequences, rituals, and digital or organic viruses.

With an international career, Ernesto Ríos has participated in more than 70 group exhibitions and 29 solo exhibitions, both in Mexico and abroad. He was the first Latin American to receive the Siemens-RMIT Visual Arts Award in Australia (2010), and is currently a professor and researcher at the UAEM, as well as a PhD in Visual Arts from RMIT in Australia.

"Codes" is not just an exhibition; it is an invitation to pause and reflect on what we don't always see, but that structures our daily existence.

The exhibition, comprised of paintings and ceramics, is based on three key concepts: codification, transformation, and perception. Through these, Ríos creates a visual poetics that questions the boundaries between the natural and the artificial, the ancestral and the technological. His work proposes a universe of symbols, vibrations, flows, and sequences that come from both biology and contemporary digital and communication environments.
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