CUERPO VASIJA presents a selection of the most recent output in the painter’s prolific body of work, demonstrating his understanding of his creative process as an infinite ensemble that, as with the culture in Oaxaca, subverts a unique identity by offering complex spaces of relationships with other cultures and identities. In this terd solo show by Luis Hampshire we will be able to appreciate a hybrid, criollo, cosmologically mutable body of work, full of details and poetic elements that project moments of awareness and intuition of the artist’s passage through the world.

Color is taken as space, as a moment that encourages the body to inhabit and to be a moment in space.

The body as the dermis of the world where everything can be. The body as receptacle, as container.

The container as something that goes beyond itself. It is that which contains and also something that spills out.

Painting as an awareness of the moment in which everything flows and is and escapes and yet leaves residues: detritus of the world so that others can signify their world. Painting as a symbol of possible futures.

Ideas that are made possible via the display of numerous canvases that extend along the white walls, which are interrupted by the colored triangles that the artist painted. On the floor, four canvases contain elements that—between the figurative and the abstract—are reminiscent of vessels. Content translates into container as the artist has made a sculpture of the canvases, holding them upright on a metal and clay structure—in collaboration with Isaí Pinera (Cara de Planta).

Hampshire’s work has been exhibited both individually and collectively: his most recent exhibition is amalgama, a solo show at the MUPO (Museum of Oaxacan Painters). Luis Hampshire stands out, not only for his pictorial production, but also for positioning himself as a prominent agent of contemporary art institutions: he was the director of the Rufino Tamayo Plastic Arts Workshop in Oaxaca from 2011 to 2013, director of the MUPO (Museum of Oaxacan Painters) from 2013 to 2017, and since 2009 he has been a professor of painting and has held the Contemporary Art chair at the School of Fine arts at the Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca (UABJO).