DNA STUDIO × GENERAL EXPENSES
CATHERINE MULLIGAN SHOWCASE & DNA ARCHIVE ROOM
During Mexico City Art Week, DNA opened its studio doors, transforming the space into an extension of the contemporary art gallery General Expenses. They proposed opening this process to the public: not as a closed exhibition, but as a living space where artwork, archive, thought, and community coexisted. Catherine Mulligan's showcase, presented in this context, embodied a central line of inquiry for DNA: the exploration of beauty beyond its normative constructions, understood as a vulnerable, emotional, and profoundly human condition.
This partnership with General Expenses made it possible to expand the studio into a meeting place for painting, photography, archives, and shared presence. Conversations arose about the body, the image, and how we see and represent ourselves today.
This partnership with General Expenses made it possible to expand the studio into a meeting place for painting, photography, archives, and shared presence. Conversations arose about the body, the image, and how we see and represent ourselves today.
“The hypercontemporary world, immersed in aesthetic demands, itinerant codes of beauty and toning exercises that open wounds, constantly places us at the paradoxical crossroads of judgment: how to conceive beauty as an aspect independent from morality?, and how to recognize ourselves among the universally commercialized symbols and arbitrarily deposited in aestheticizing procedures?
This showcase by Catherine Mulligan, presented by DNA Magazine and General Expenses, transforms the space into a territory of sensitive experimentation, and extends an invitation to observe how her work reconfigures the limits between beauty, agency and perception.
In dialogue with the visual and conceptual research of the upcoming issue of DNA Magazine, which celebrates the diversity in which the beauty of life manifests itself, Mulligan’s exhibition opens as a reflective space to think of the artificial and the organic as mobile, transitory and performative symbols.”
This showcase by Catherine Mulligan, presented by DNA Magazine and General Expenses, transforms the space into a territory of sensitive experimentation, and extends an invitation to observe how her work reconfigures the limits between beauty, agency and perception.
In dialogue with the visual and conceptual research of the upcoming issue of DNA Magazine, which celebrates the diversity in which the beauty of life manifests itself, Mulligan’s exhibition opens as a reflective space to think of the artificial and the organic as mobile, transitory and performative symbols.”