Enrique López Llamas explores childhood fears and toxic masculinity in solo exhibition at Fundación CALOSA

Enrique López Llamas presents his solo exhibition 'Lo visible, lo invisible' at Fundación CALOSA in Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, running from January 24 to April 24, 2026. The Mexican artist, born in Aguascalientes in 1993, creates a parallel between childhood fear memories and contemporary adult male emotional education. His installation features fluorescent plastic polymer assemblages from the 2025 series 'Glow on' that become visible only in darkness, glowing as reminders of repressed experiences. A 4K video work sharing the exhibition's title serves as an allegory for inherited masculine behaviors that resurface as automatic reflexes. The exhibition functions as a pendulum between light and darkness, where play and violence reveal what remains hidden from view. White figures in the video represent not past spirits but persistent behaviors that remain vividly present. López Llamas investigates the fear of growing up, the difficulty of breaking free from toxic learning that structures male behavior, and the generational replication of systemic violence. The artist imagines masculinity as a territory of overlapping layers where vulnerability flickers like temporary light, and adulthood becomes a perpetual negotiation with haunting ghosts. His work examines how normalized attitudes accompany subjects even when they believe they've overcome them, with forms thought to be surpassed returning with disturbing clarity when night falls.