The horizon is always receding brings together a selection of works that reflect on the scope and the implications that the term contemporary may have. As the philosopher Giorgio Agamben suggests, contemporaneity can be understood as a term that surpasses temporal demarcations and transcends simultaneity and coexistence. In this sense, this exhibition serves as a symptomatic display of the concerns of current artists and their immediate relationships with the geopolitical and social environment.

Since its foundation in 1981, the Tamayo Museum has assembled a collection of international art respecting the initial criteria of Rufino and Olga Tamayo. Four decades after the museum’s foundation, and far from imposing a linear or geographic narrative, the collection reflects the complexity, the diversity, and the conceptual tensions of our time. Furthermore, it crosses lines of thought and multiple disciplines and techniques, which extends its scope and value.

The title of this exhibition suggests that contemporaneity fosters the inevitable emergence of a surplus. When there is the intention to remain updated with regard to the totality of factors that compose the present, there always emerges a new situation that escapes any possibility of apprehension. In this way, it can be said that the horizon of a presentist model of thought always recedes.

The exhibition presents works by: Joachim Koester, Paloma Contreras Lomas, Cildo Meireles, Danh Vo, Mirtha Dermisache, Wolfgang Tillmans, Gabriel Orozco, Tania Pérez Córdova, Roberto Gil de Montes, Mariela Scafati, Francis Alÿs, Pablo Vargas Lugo, Carlos Amorales, Jorge Satorre, Simon Starling, Jonathan Monk, Mario García Torres, David Lamelas, Fernanda Laguna, Bruno Botella, and Melanie Smith.