Hugo Toro's 'Ojo de Agua' Debuts at Perrotin New York

Franco-Mexican artist Hugo Toro presents 'Ojo de Agua', his first US exhibition and debut with Perrotin, at the gallery's New York location. The show features over a dozen paintings and sculptures exploring water as a metaphor for memory, transmission, and identity. Toro, who was born in Sarreguemines, France, and has never lived in Mexico, paints an emotional landscape of his maternal heritage. The exhibition's title references his maternal grandparents' village in Oaxaca, meaning 'the place where water is born'. Toro's water appears in reds, greens, and blacks rather than blue, reflecting his concept of 'pigmentogenesis' where color creates emotional reality. A central installation includes two actual chairs—one from his grandmother's house in Oaxaca, another from his French grandparents—facing each other across some 3,000 ceramic forms, symbolizing two family histories that never fully met. Toro came to painting through architecture and interior design, which he describes as a continuation rather than a break. The exhibition runs at Perrotin New York.