LIVE POETRY + EXHIBITION CLOSING! Next week, on September 6th, we will be hosting a walk-through of A CARNIVAL OF BODIES with the one and only Antoine Granier!

Antoine Granier’s abstracted figures made into kinetic machinery evoke the othered body, the grotesque, and the queer through references to Georges Méliès, turn-of-the-century fairgrounds, and fortune‑telling booths. He fuses DIY mechanics, proto-cinematic illusion, and poetic performativity to conjure up a whimsical collision of the organic and technologic. Moving and transforming in real time, his mesmerising mechanical hybrids critique technological capitalism and explore the ways in which we reshape the land, bodies, and belief systems in a hyper‑digitized world. Parsing out our fraught relationship with technology, nature, and social control, his sculptures blur the boundary between magic and machine through a performativity that engages the viewer and exposes how bodies and identities are shaped, masked, and monitored. A quirky critique full of wonder, Granier’s uncannily charming pieces mobilize collective joy and storytelling in an effort to reclaim communal spaces through a rich dramaturgy of resistance and re-enchantment. Championing metamorphosis as a gesture of resistance, his techno‑musical mutations playfully challenge the machinizing strategies of capitalism –those systems that rationalize bodies, reduce intuition to algorithms, and treat flesh as mere production units.

📅 September 6th, 2025
⏰ 18:00 - 20:00 hrs
📍 Astrónomos 62-C, Escandón, Mexico City

We hope you can join us at Ambar Quijano next week for this unique opportunity to meet the artist!