Update, 23 September 2026: Echoes of Haworth sold out on opening night. Every available work found a collector in under two hours. The venue was Galera 32 in Narvarte Poniente; an earlier version of this post placed it in Roma Norte. Full details are on the exhibition page.
Echoes of Haworth, a solo exhibition of new work by JoCa curated by Rafael Pérez y Pérez, opens tonight at Galera 32 in Narvarte Poniente, Mexico City. The opening reception, Thursday 17 September at 8:00 pm, is by invitation only. If you do not have one, you have lost nothing: the show is open to the general public from tomorrow, Friday 18 September.
Tonight Is Invitation Only. Friday Is Not.
This is the single thing worth knowing, because it is the part people get wrong and then assume they have missed a show they have not missed. An invitation covers one evening. The exhibition itself runs on afterwards and is open to anyone who walks in.
The reasoning is capacity rather than exclusivity, and we wrote about why that is nearly universal in how a gallery show actually comes together. The short version: a room has a limit, and on opening night the artist needs to be able to speak to people and the work needs to be visible over shoulders.
What Echoes of Haworth Is
A solo presentation of new work, curated rather than simply assembled — which, as we set out yesterday, means somebody decided what stayed out as much as what went in.
JoCa’s practice works in a non finito register: figures deliberately left unresolved, abstract texture and figurative realism running in the same picture rather than in separate ones. It is work that rewards standing still, because the unresolved passages are doing the arguing and they are easy to walk past.
If you want to see how that reads, Self Assemble 1 and Self Assemble 2 are available now, and the wider JoCa collection shows how the approach carries across a body of work rather than a single canvas.
Where It Is
The show is at Galera 32, Iker Ortiz’s space in Narvarte Poniente, Mexico City, presented in collaboration with Galería Errante. Production is by Napkin71.
The Best Day to Actually See It Is Not Tonight
Even with an invitation, opening night is the worst night for looking. The paintings will be identical on a quiet Tuesday, and you will be able to stand in front of one for as long as it takes without negotiating around anybody.
Full details are on the Echoes of Haworth exhibition page. The available work is in the JoCa collection, and the rest of the roster is under our artists.
