{"id":614356,"date":"2026-04-30T01:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/614356\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T01:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:52:15","slug":"art-omi-stages-onnis-luque-photography-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/614356\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Omi stages Onnis Luque photography exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new exhibition<\/a> about \u201carchitectural extractivism\u201d by photographer<\/a> Onnis Luque is on view in Art Omi<\/a>\u2019s Newmark Gallery. DOMINIO: An Unfinished Visual Archive of Architectural Extractivism<\/a> is curated by Art Omi senior architecture curator Julia van den Hout.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Per an artistic statement, the show is \u201cboth documentation and provocation\u2014a visual archive that reclaims visibility for the landscapes architecture depends on\u201d and that \u201casks us to confront the cost of what we build.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"The exhibition is sited in Art Omi\u2019s Newmark Gallery. (Olympia Shannon)<\/p>\n

DOMINIO is comparable to Victor Kossakovsky\u2019s new film Architecton<\/a> in that both prod critical questions about architecture and material resource extraction. It features photographs by Luque of extraction sites in Mexico<\/a> of the Mezquital Valley, the Highlands of Chiapas, Sierra de las Mitras, and the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula.<\/p>\n

\"\"The show centers sites of extraction in Mexico. (Olympia Shannon)<\/p>\n

Luque\u2019s foray into the project began in 2014, when he began capturing fractured hillsides, gaping quarries, and \u201cindustrial wounds\u201d\u2014images that oscillate between \u201cbeauty and horror\u201d of sites shaped by machines but also ideology, i.e. capitalism, colonialism, and modernism.<\/p>\n

The imagery conveys remote landscapes with limited structures, construction crews shoveling away at walls of rock, and the erosion of natural landscapes.<\/p>\n

In Art Omi\u2019s light-filled gallery space, several of Luque\u2019s poignant images are blown up to span the full length of the walls they cling to. Other photographs were printed on smaller canvases and are arranged as collages in the exhibition space.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Luque began photographing the sites in 2014. (Onnis Luque)<\/p>\n

Accompanying the photographs are physical examples of the materials depicted in the imagery. For instance, a pile of small stones mimics the towering shape of the mountain featured in the photograph that it is staged in front of.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the center of the gallery, a single stack of cinderblocks serves as a reminder of what the landscapes presented in Luque\u2019s work can become.\u00a0\u201cDOMINIO makes visible what architectural images often conceal: that buildings are rooted not only in place, but in the distant voids left behind by their materials,\u201d the curatorial statement reads.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe exhibition questions photography\u2019s own complicity in sustaining architecture\u2019s myths,\u201d the statement continues. \u201cCan images reclaim critical ground? Can we reimagine architectural production beyond extraction? Can we inhabit the planet without eroding the very systems that sustain life?\u201d<\/p>\n

Luque lives and works in the peninsular Mayan territory. After studying at the School of Architecture at the Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico, he went on to become a professional photographer.<\/p>\n

\"\"(Onnis Luque)<\/p>\n

Books of Luque\u2019s include Architecture, State and Militarization (2023), UNDERCOVER (2021), and USF\/DF Tactics of Appropriation (2014).<\/p>\n

The exhibition is open through May 31, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new exhibition about \u201carchitectural extractivism\u201d by photographer Onnis Luque is on view in Art Omi\u2019s Newmark Gallery.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-614356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}