Mitos y memorias brings together twenty works, twelve oil paintings and eight drawings created between 2024 and 2025. The exhibition reflects on memory and myth as persistent forces, returning again and again in my work over the past twenty-five years.

These paintings act as retablos of the present, mixing personal recollection with sacred icons, mythological figures, and contemporary symbols. At its core, this body of work is a homage: to family, to my island roots, to archetypes that return in new guises, and to stories that simply refuse to fade. The paintings function as hybrids of personal recollection, pseudo-religious iconography, and mythological allegory. Colonial saints, mythic goddesses, and modern-day figures reappear in altered forms. Pygmalion kneels before an algorithmic Galatea, Narcissus gazes at the false light of his phone, Europa crosses seas of exile, while the Sacred Heart is bound in cables and crowned by data. Figures from world history, religion, mythology are recast within my own narratives, speaking to displacement, longing, distraction, and transformation in a consumer age of A.I. and social media algorithms, where the sacred and the simulated overlap.

The accompanying drawings are studies for La Isla, my Lenormand deck, rooted in my analog memories growing up in Puerto Rico. They function as small, direct counterpoints to the complexity of the paintings, anchoring the exhibition in a more intimate dimension. These sketches together with the paintings, reframe personal myths and memories through a divinatory lens, forming a dialogue between the collective and the personal, the mythic and the everyday.

Mitos y Memorias is not only a survey of recent work, but also a meditation on continuity. It asks which myths still matter, which memories we continue to carry and which images resurface. Whether drawn in ink, painted in oil, pixelated on a screen, or recalled in a dream, these images continue to guide us. Stories change their form, but their meaning endures, carrying us through uncertain times.

(Text by Patrick McGrath Muñiz)