Goodman Gallery is pleased to present Disclose, Mateo López’s first solo exhibition on the continent.

Beginning with the idea of drawing as a process through which to think, experiment and animate different ideas, the exhibition brings together works on paper, sculptures as well as a new animation film, Disclose (2022). Drawing, which is foundational in López’s practice, merges with selected materials to bring about different ideas. Employing various tools – the body, pencil, fabric, pixels – López sets a scene for musicality and movement that is at once chaotic and methodical.

Included in the exhibition are twenty-nine collage works presented as a horizontal grid. The work was created during the 2021 Colombian protests during which thousands of residents took to the streets to protest increased taxes, corruption, and health care reform proposed by the government. The verses contained in the collage works are based on a text co-written with partner Yanina Valdivieso originally included in the exhibition Mateo López: Undo List, at The Drawing Center in New York in 2017. Written partly in response to the political turmoil in Colombia, following the Plebiscite for the Colombian Peace Agreement, the text begins “It happened already” followed by “Be angry” and “Undo” — gesturing towards a call for action, communicating a sense of urgency for change. Seeing the marches on the streets and experiencing protests with residents shouting, singing and carrying banners and flags propelled López to revisit the text and to want to agitate it and make it move.