About the Exhibition.

TMR Guadalajara is a multiyear initiative of exhibitions, public programs, and experimental artist projects produced by TMR in Guadalajara in collaboration with PAOS (Programa Anual de Open Studios)—a residency and alternative cultural education organization supported by the State of Jalisco’s Ministry of Culture and the Instituto Cultural Cabañas. For the exhibition component of this initiative, artists will be invited to participate in a month-long residency at Museo Taller José Clemente Orozco—the historic former residence and workshop of the late Mexican muralist. At the culmination of their residency the work produced will be installed in the space as an exhibition.

The first participating artist is Henry Taylor. In Henry Taylor's work, the autobiographical collides with historical narratives and popular mythologies to forge a poignant portrait of the complexities of the here and now. His exhibition for TMR Guadalajara, titled This Side, That Side, takes the stark and widening inequalities between social classes as its point of departure.

Informed by a myriad of exchanges and experiences the artist had during his residency in the city, the show is structured as two installations that at first glance simply depict quotidian scenes, albeit, in two very different worlds. In the first vignette, the back garden of an affluent household echoes a contemporary version of the opulent scene portrayed in Orozco's monumental mural La Buena Vida. A cast of characters, most of whom are individuals involved in some capacity in the local contemporary art scene, gaze over the garden, serving as a charged reminder of the complicity of our industry in the trade of luxury commodities and the circulation of unregulated capital. On the mezzanine another world is given form in a scene that resembles the garden of a working-class home. Dirt and a host of found materials Taylor has previously employed to reference class are anchored by two large-scale paintings that unveil snapshots of ordinary life in the city. Two poles apart, simultaneously local and universal, serve to tell a story between those who have and those who have not.