STICKER PARTY
STICKER PARTY by Cara de Niño & Cromática, hosted by Pidgin Palace Arts
Cara de Niño is a collective founded in 2018 in Mexico City by artists from different states across the country. The group has been characterized by its exploration of unconventional exhibition formats. Its members come from multiple disciplines, ranging from painting, photography, and collage to illustration and other contemporary graphic practices. For this exhibition, Galería Cromática and the artists of Cara de Niño, hosted by Pidgin Palace Arts Gallery, present Sticker Party, a graphic show centered around posters and a sticker exchange, designed as a playful, dynamic, and open experience. The main intention is for each artist to have full freedom of expression, allowing them to reflect their personal interests, explorations, and artistic practices without limitations. The central theme of the show is stickers as symbols of friendship, exchange, and collective play. The exhibition seeks to recover the childlike and communal excitement of trading stickers – sharing and collecting, and engaging in dialogue through small graphic gestures. Galería Cromática and Shannon Smith curate for Pidgin Palace Arts Gallery, fostering a dialogue between the Mexico City and Tucson Art Scenes, creating bridges and expanding reach with this visual celebration of creativity.
Sonia Rangel
My work develops from the exploration of different techniques. Through them I have reflected on my life – sometimes from the perspective of death; not as a dark ending but as a way to remind us that life is not infinite and that every moment has an unrepeatable value. In recent years, pop culture, celebration, and my loved ones have become fundamental pillars of my inspiration. Through intervention and appropriation, I seek to recreate nostalgia and memory: to represent reality in a brighter and slightly surreal way, reconstructing the moments I have lived from an emotional, almost idealized perspective, as if memories were transformed into a more ordered or luminous version of themselves. Documenting my life and creating gelatin molds – ephemeral forms that decompose over time – allow me to speak about the fragility of existence and the transience of celebration. In video, I find a natural extension of this search: capturing moments, preserving memory, and building a kind of visual diary that oscillates between silliness and poetry.
MANUEL TENEDOR
Manuel Tenedor was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. He studied industrial design at the University of Guadalajara. His work focuses on the synthesis of line and the anthropology and fiction of the daily life, objects, architecture and cuisine. He has exhibited his work in New York, Berlin, Amsterdam and Mexico City.
