Martha Hellion, Hojas Sueltas. Ediciones Sin Límites

Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City
30 January until 13 of Abril 2025

This exhibition displays, for the first time, the multiple dimensions of Martha Hellion’s innovative work. It underscores her radical vision, which seamlessly links the visual arts, poetry and architecture. In her collaborative trajectory, she has walked through various territories and disciplines, always anchored in her expansive and generous practice.

A thorough and playful collector, Hellion archives sand, pebbles, walks and conversations. Her work stems from minimal gestures in space that generate an expansive energy that flows and focuses on an action or document.

Like a pendulum that explores its surroundings, Hellion’s practice lends life to inert materialities by injecting them with the stuff of memory and imagination. Her works, light, delicate and radical, elude habitual formats traveling freely among categories. Always inspired by nature, each piece can be read as an unbound book; as a compilation of Loose Leaves, in which the reader can spontaneously determine the order. Each encounter is unique.

For Martha Hellion, poetry is meant to be spoken aloud, or sung or read in silence while conjuring its sound; it is also meant to be perceived visually. Early on, the artist began circling around books, which she has edited, produced, printed, collected and transformed, through unceasing research, into new methods and formats. The exhibition has this process at its core: it shows the limitless possibilities she has uncovered in artists’ books. Other overlapping orbits encompass her explorations in the visual arts, installation, curatorship and design. As a whole, the exhibition establishes Martha Hellion’s fundamental role in art history, and the currency of her practice as an interdisciplinary and experimental artist.

Curated by Mariana Castillo Deball and Manuel Raeder