SUEÑXS
Eduardo Sarabia at the Careyes Foundation
December 2024 /May 2025
Set between the jungle and the sea, SUEÑXS invited us into a space where memory, imagination, and play converge. The exhibition by Mexican-American artist Eduardo Sarabia, presented at the Careyes Foundation from December 2024 to May 2025, emerged from a residency rooted in place; attentive to the landscape, the stories it holds, and the communities that inhabit it.
During his time in Careyes, Sarabia developed a show that draws from dreams as portals to the symbolic. His sculptural language — playful, precise, and rich in cultural resonance — unfolded in a gallery nestled in the heart of the Pacific coast. Through crowns, navigation charts, floral apparitions, and silver-toned fish moving in circular formations, the exhibition traced a cosmology both personal and collective.
SUEÑXS extended beyond the gallery walls
The project included a series of workshops with children from the nearby communities of Arroyo Seco and Chamela. More than 40 young participants explored drawing, objects, and stories alongside the artist. The workshops took place in classrooms and open-air settings, allowing for a playful and intuitive approach to artistic expression, grounded in the environment that surrounds them.
For many of the children, it was a first encounter with contemporary art. One framed not as theory but as experience: tactile, open-ended, and collaborative. For Sarabia, it was a way of expanding his practice in conversation with local voices and rhythms.
As Lorena Peña Brito writes in the curatorial text: “Dreaming is accessing another dimension… a portal to memory, to what was real in the world of our bodies, and to what we made real through imagination.”
At Careyes Foundation, we view art as a vital part of community life, not a separate world, but one that touches education, culture, and the way we see ourselves. SUEÑXS embodied that vision: an exhibition as encounter, and a residency as shared process.
We thank Eduardo Sarabia for his generous contribution to this chapter of our Art Program, and to all who made it possible.
