Sol de lluvia

Ernesto Solana presents Sol de lluvia at guadalajara90210, a series of new sculptures that explore the temporalities and encounters between the human and the “natural.” The pieces emerge from walks through the city, during which the artist collects flowers, insects, and vestiges, later transforming them into metal through casting processes similar to the lost-wax technique. These entities—some metallic, others organic—rest upon and emerge from geometric structures inspired by the xicalcoliuhqui, an ancient stepped Mesoamerican motif that symbolizes cycles, continuity, and movement. The guajes (gourds), living beings that contain and hold embodied knowledge, become vessels that preserve memories and understandings. Their rod-like legs, tied with geometric patterns, evoke how the constructed and the organic coexist. From this base, beings arise: hybrid forms that walk the line between the inherited and the contemporary. In Sol de lluvia, nature and artifice intertwine to reflect on the bonds and entanglements between species and cultures, and on how we inhabit a shared world. The title evokes that metallic light that precedes the storm, or the sunbeams filtering through the wetness—moments of stillness where beauty seems to pause amid transition. The works invite us to notice what usually goes unseen and to revisit the various forms of permanence and temporality we inhabit.