Mexican artist Alexis Mata transforms familiar terrain into dreamlike environments where reality appears to fracture and shift. Inspired by a walk through the forests and mountains of Tepoztlán, Mexico, the painter recalls a moment when drifting dandelion seeds created the sensation of standing in an unfamiliar world. That experience became the foundation of Lost Landing, a new body of work that imagines landscapes as evolving territories shaped by movement, growth, and discovery.
Across the exhibition, vibrant deserts, cloud-filled skies, and dense vegetation are interrupted by Mata’s signature glitch-like distortions. Sections of the scenery seem to slide, overlap, and dissolve into one another, creating compositions that feel suspended between memory and invention. Cacti emerge as recurring protagonists, their remarkable longevity contrasted with delicate dandelions dispersing seeds into the wind. Through these pairings, the artist compresses different scales of time into a single visual plane, where permanence and transience coexist within richly colored settings.
Rather than depicting specific locations, Mata constructs speculative worlds that appear to be in a constant state of transformation. Plants, stones, and atmospheric forms drift beyond their expected boundaries, suggesting ecosystems still taking shape. The works in Lost Landing read like fragments of an expanding geography, where ideas spread organically, and landscapes continuously reinvent themselves. On view at Thinkspace in Los Angeles through June 27, the exhibition extends Mata’s ongoing exploration of wonder, migration, and the endless possibilities hidden within the natural world.
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