06.09.2025 - 26.10. 2025
Opening on Saturday, September 6th, from 5 - 8PM
Official Afterparty of the Gallery Opening Season: 8PM till late
Location: NMAG, Bos en Lommerweg 88-90
No Man’s Art Gallery is honoured to present the first solo exhibition of RojoNegro, the artist duo composed of María Sosa and Noé Martínez, with the gallery. Revolving around the performance of rituals in which bodily movement enters into dialogue with the historical energies of colonial documents and activates material elements, RojoNegro usher in a new chapter of their practice, using it as a means for spiritual communication and healing.
RojoNegro, Retrato de Sombra I, 2024. Watercolour and applications on paper, 208 x 110 cm. Image courtesy of the artists.
María Sosa graduated from the Universidad Michoacán de San Nicolas de Hidalgo. Sosa’s practice stems from her research about our shared colonial past and how it constitutes contemporary social dynamics as an epistemicide of prehispanic worlds, racism, sexism, and the invisibility of multiple nonwesterner’s ways of life in the American continent. Sosa’s work is nourished by her research of prehispanic art, anthropology, the methodology of Ecología de Saberes and the exploration of production techniques of ritual prehispanic and contemporary objects.
Noé Martínez is a visual artist and filmmaker who graduated from Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado (“La Esmeralda”) in Mexico City. His work functions as a case study that emerges from personal history, making use of ethnographic methodologies and research of the various histories of indigenous communities of the American continent.
RojoNegro’s recent solo exhibitions include: Volví a ser vasija, volví a ser animal a ser planta, volví a ser tiempo, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan (MX), 2024; Tepalcates de sueños, commissioned by the Swiss Institute of New York in Mexico City (MX), 2022; and El encuentro de los tepalcates, an offsite project with a performance and presentation video commissioned by the Swiss Institute of New York (USA), 2021.
Their group exhibitions and projects include: Commission for Stuart Collection of UCSD University of San Diego (USA), upcoming; Fantastic Creatures, Museum Van Bommel Van Dam, Venlo (NL), upcoming; Transmisión Ancestral, Plataforma, Guadalajara, Jalisco (MX), 2024; Cordillera, Galería Extra, Guatemala City (GU), 2024; Las estrellas me iluminan al revés, No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam (NL), 2022; and their participation in the Venice International Performance Art Week, Palazzo Mora, Venice (IT), 2016.