Enrique Rosas
Enrique Rosas, born in 1972 in Mexico City, explores the connections between art, science, and technology, spanning fields as diverse as electronics and biology. By focusing on the materialisation of ideas—understood not as mere abstractions but as processes that reconcile the immaterial with the material—his work revives the Renaissance ideal of a world that was not only perceived but also projected through the eyes. Interested in pattern recognition, a tool science often uses to decipher reality, his research evolves from a specific vantage point, linking scientific studies on matter and the language of programming with esoteric fields related to notions of “archetypal memory” and the discoveries of futurology.
Establishing a feedback loop between thought and technique, his works are structured around binomials: the observer and the observed, the individual and the collective, the natural and the constructed, the micro and the macro, among others. His training and practice as an architect, his early proximity to cinema, and his experimentation with design and computing contribute additional layers. In this sense, his practice creates a significant dialogue between architecture, sculpture, and the mechanisms of a database, integrating his trajectory into a reorganisation of artistic methodology in relation to the development of scientific knowledge. Recently inserted into the kinetic tradition and consistently in dialogue with Constructivist aesthetics, his work also repositions these languages—introducing chance, intuition, and sensory experience as determining components. For this reason, his primary aim is to generate, within the creative field, a gratifying perspective in contrast to the cold and impersonal uses that today’s technologies increasingly adopt. In doing so, he seeks to foster an experience in which the viewer, like the artist himself, becomes the maker of their own materials and imaginaries.
Le Laboratoire Gallery organised the artist’s first solo exhibition in Mexico, “Sell your Money”, during Gallery Weekend Mexico 2013. The gallery also presented his work at ZONA MACO in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. Rosas received the Premio Colección Reserva de la Familia (2014), presented in October of the same year at Museo Jumex. His solo exhibition “Estados alterados de conciencia” was held at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Carrillo Gil from November 2014 to January 2015.
His work is included in major collections such as the José Cuervo Collection, the Fundación Televisa Collection, as well as private collections in Mexico, the United States, France, Switzerland, among others.
