AC2 Gallery

301 Mountain Rd. N.E.

Downtown Albuquerque, on the northeast corner of

Mountain Rd. and Broadway Blvd.

It's a big yellow warehouse, entrance is on the east side

of the building. Parking is always available at the

Post Office directly diagonal from the gallery.

GALLERY HOURS:

Sunday 12-4pm

or by appt.

*FYI gallery hours only when

exhibitions are up

(505) 417-0172

Seeds of Compromise: In Search of Digestive Architectures takes painting as a space for examining the tensions between memory and desire, exploring queerness as it develops in relation to domesticity, motherhood, and myth. Saul Ramirez works primarily in painting, but it is a multimedia approach that understands it as an expanded field by absorbing other media and methodologies such as video, poetry, and installation. Seeds of Compromise is inspired by the Hymn to Demeter, exploring the conflicts that emerge when it is read from Persephone’s perspective, her yearly death and rebirth (an allegory of the seasons) embodies a movement through grief. Taking this myth as a framework, this work expands on a painting practice that is allegorically a motherly digestion where the studio is akin to a stomach. A practice inspired by Mesoamerican deities such as Tlazolteotl (meaning “filth deity”) who, by consuming sin, she forgives them, and Cipactli who is the primordial beast whose body is sacrificed to create the earth and whose stomach continues to digest us after we die. By thinking of the studio as a stomach, painting can absorb an earthly function of digestion where waste and death are reborn as fertility and generosity.