Anamnesis
Works by Sergio Suárez
September 18, 2026 - January 24, 2027
Sergio Suarez, Liturgias para el umbral de otra era (Hoy el viento sopla a travez de lo huesos del tiempo. No es el soplo que refresca, sino el que despoja, el que atraviesa la piel y nos recuerda la fragilidad de lo que creemos solido.) / Liturgies for the Cusp of an Era (Today the wind blows through the bones of time. It is not the breath that refreshes, but the one that strips, the one that pierces the skin and reminds us of the fragility of what we believe to be solid.) 2024-25. Ink on carved wood. Courtesy the artist.
The Greek noun, anamnesis, asserts the ever-presence of the past. It can be translated straightforwardly as ‘reminiscence,’ but it is also a word that expresses the possibility of remembering things from a previous existence, used by the ancient Greek philosopher, Plato, to describe the innate knowledge recalled by the immortal soul through each rebirth. Using anamnesis as its guiding principle, this exhibition stages a series of conversations, or remembrances, between the work of Sergio Suárez (b. 1995, Mexico City, Mexico) and the Carlos Museum’s collections of Indigenous American art, Greek and Roman art, and Works on Paper. Through print, sculpture, fresco, and ceramic, interspersed through the permanent collection galleries, Suárez explores the passage and presence of time on a cosmic, mythic, and intimately human scale, inviting us to consider the processes that transform objects into artifacts and the histories, memories, and lives they embody.
Sergio Suárez (b. 1995, Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican visual artist and printmaker based in Atlanta. His work explores how materiality and semiotics influence notions of the body, metaphysics, and diverse cosmologies. He graduated in 2021 from the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking. His work has been exhibited in the United States and internationally at venues such as Patel Brown (Montreal, Canada), Sargent’s Daughters (New York, NY), Pale Fire Projects (Vancouver, Canada), KDR Gallery (Miami, FL), Fundación Casa Wabi Sabino (Mexico City, Mexico), Johnson Lowe Gallery (Atlanta, GA), Hawkins HQ (Atlanta, GA), Whitespace Gallery (Atlanta, GA), the Mexican Consulate General (Atlanta, GA), Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta, GA), Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (London, UK), Haugesund International Relief Festival (Haugesund, Norway), OPED Space (Tokyo, Japan), and the Ionian Arts Center (Kefalonia, Greece), where he was an artist-in-residence in 2017 and 2018. Suárez has also participated in artist residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (Madison, ME), Bemis Center Residency (Omaha, NE), MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA), Penland Residency (Penland, NC), and Bed-Stuy Art Residency (Brooklyn, NY), among others. His work has been reviewed by the Financial Times, Artillery, Burnaway, and ART PAPERS, and was featured in issue #166 of New American Paintings. Additionally, his pieces are part of the public collections at the Zuckerman Museum (Kennesaw, GA) and MOCA GA (Atlanta, GA). He currently lives and works in Atlanta, GA, with his two cats.
