Jorge Satorre: Ria

In February 2025, the Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo will unveil Spain’s first institutional solo exhibition dedicated to Jorge Satorre (1979 Mexico City. Lives between Bilbao and Mexico City). Satorre’s artistic practice delves into unmapped and “minor” histories, whether attending to the intangible heritage of traditions and the oral transmission of stories, or by engaging in more formal explorations of traditional craft production methods, their environments, stories and labourers.

Emerging from his initial interest in developing a career as a book illustrator, Satorre’s artistic research has consistently focused on experimenting with the boundaries of various disciplines associated with drawing. Over time, this practice has become increasingly linked with a sculptural dimension that dialogues with the diverse contexts where he conceives and displays his work. His recent projects often involve acts of transformation and subversion stemming from elemental actions such as moulding, stamping, forging, casting, or breaking. These processes intertwine the intimate with the industrial, the functional with misuse, anecdotes with archetypes, and remembered events with imagined ones.

The exhibition “Ria” will feature a selection of Satorre’s works produced between 2013 and 2025, a phase he sees as a process of calibrating the distances between starting points and final forms in his work. It also reflects a certain introspection that allows him to question personal experience in relation to broader cultural, political, and social contexts.

The artist’s first monograph will be released in conjunction with the exhibition, featuring new essays by Daniel Garza Usabiaga (Director, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City), Sean Lynch (artist, Askeaton, Ireland) and a conversation between the artist and Latitudes, the exhibition curators. This bilingual Spanish-English edition will be structured around Satorre’s exhibitions and works of the last fifteen years, arranged in reverse chronological order. The book will be designed by the artist and publisher Gabriel Pericàs in collaboration with Satorre, and co-published by Museo CA2M and Caniche Editorial.

“Ria” will occupy c. 500m2 on the museum’s second floor and run concurrently with exhibitions dedicated to María Medem, and from March 1, 2025, to Rodríguez-Méndez, and David Bestué. It will also coincide with various events in the city surrounding the 44th edition of the ARCOmadrid art fair (5–9 March 2025).