12 JUL – 12 AGO 2026
OBLIQUO presents Muye, a solo exhibition by Abinadi Meza. The exhibition, curated by Mario Gutiérrez Cru, is presented with the support of PROYECTOR.
“I am water in another form.” Gaston Bachelard’s statement resonates as a possible echo within Muye, where water appears not as a motif but as an active principle of transformation. The work unfolds through a continuous flow of ink that evokes both atmospheric instability and cosmic expansion, positioning itself at a threshold where the microscopic and the celestial seem to share the same matter in transition.
The animation develops a sequence of luminous and chromatic turbulences that do not illustrate a landscape, but bring it into being. The movement does not follow a linear narrative, but rather a logic of drift: accumulations of intensity that suggest processes preceding any fixed form, even preceding the separation between image and phenomenon.
Within this flow, Muye invokes a quasi-cosmological dimension of water as origin, mutation, and overflow. There is no stable center, only proliferation; no figure, only states of emergence. Matter circulates across scales, moving between the infinitesimally small and the immeasurably vast, as if both extremes shared the same condition of instability.
The practice of Abinadi Meza, a Latinx-Indigenous artist, inhabits this territory where the image ceases to be representation and becomes spatial and sensory experience. His background in both art and architecture informs a body of work that understands space not as a container, but as an active field of perception. In this sense, the animation is not merely seen: it is inhabited.
OBLIQUO presents this piece as an exploration of the limits of contemporary perception, where the natural and the artificial, the organic and the constructed, cease to function as stable categories and enter a shared field of vibration. Muye does not describe a world: it brings it forth, destabilizes it, and holds it in suspension.
OBLIQUO
Calle Valencia 17, Madrid.
Monday to Sunday from 9am to 9pm.
Muye
08:30
2025
Muye is the Hñähñu deity of rain, thunder, and the movements of subterranean and surface waters. In some accounts he appears as a serpent or a layered, strand-like being. In this direct animation on 16mm film, pigment moves across the celluloid as storm, flood, and luminous energy. The moving image becomes a living, fluid body transforming across molecular, geological, and primordial scales.
Abinadi Meza
Abinadi Meza (MX/US) is a Hñähñu artist, filmmaker and composer. Trained in painting and architectural theory, Meza conceives the moving image as a space for physical contact. His “Cine Elemental” treats the filmic substrate as a tactile, metabolic and synaesthetic document, producing chromatic depth and luminosity through manual layering processes. This exploration of material thresholds activates a perception of the sublime, where the work becomes a dimensional and molecular architecture.
A fellow of the American Academy in Rome (FAAR), his works have been presented at institutions such as the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), MAXXI (Rome), the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, the Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston), La Casa Encendida, and Matadero (Madrid). His films have been part of expanded cinema presentations at the Public Art Fund and The Film-Makers’ Cooperative; with screenings at PROYECTOR (Madrid), Anthology Film Archives (New York), Cineteca Nacional de México, FACT Liverpool, Crossroads (San Francisco), CTM x Transmediale (Berlin), Kasseler Dokfest, Cinemateca do MAM Rio and Punto y Raya. Her work is distributed by The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York.