From November 30, 2025 to April 26, 2026
Curated by: Daniel Birnbaum and Jacqui Davies

Juan Soriano Gallery and Luis Barragán Gallery

Tremulations is an exhibition that takes Emanuel Swedenborg’s cosmology as its point of departure. In his 1718 manuscript On Tremulation, he describes our world as consisting fundamentally of vibrations. Everything oscillates, even large objects such as buildings or entire cities. Tremulations are present in water and air and our bodies tremble like strings on a violin.

Swedenborg was a scientist and mystic who inspired major writers and artists across the world, including Blake, Goethe, Baudelaire, Balzac, Borges and the Surrealists. He has also influenced some of Mexico’s most important poets, including  Octavio Paz and Homero Ardijs.

In his writings, Swedenborg leads the reader into a seemingly infinite labyrinth of reflections and the mirror image recurs in every setting, metaphysical as well as anecdotal. In the same way, Tremulations explores “correspondences” –these always more or less veiled at first sight– are intended to be experienced and deciphered.

This exhibition, which includes works by twenty-two artists, uses his “Nine Rules of Tremulation” as a schema to explore forms of transmission and reflection. Shadows and echoes are important themes in the show, as are methods of transmission and forms of vibration and trembling. An emphasis on the multisensory agency of things creates spaces of reflection and ambience that rid our thinking of the obsession with the historically overemphasized relationship between a perceiving subject and a known object. Other equally productive relationships and forms of tremulation can emerge.

Are we quite sure where to draw the line between that which is alive and that which is not? Has this uncertainty not increased in our technologically altered environments, so impregnated with artificial components behaving as if they were given by nature?

In the exhibition, extraordinary works by the following artists tremble according to the nine rules: El Anatsui, Matthew Barney, Joseph Beuys, André Cadere, Jacqui Davies, Mario García Torres, Isa Genzken, Faustine Studio, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Félix González-Torres, David Hammons, Pierre Huyghe, Alicja Kwade, Agnes Martin, John McCracken, Ana Mendieta, Rivane Neuenschwander, Gabriel Orozco, Damián Ortega, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Franz West and Cerith Wyn Evans.