Marking Enrique López Llamas’s first solo presentation in the United States, A million more things to keep me awake introduces three major bodies of work: The Magician, a newly commissioned, large-scale, hand-painted sculpture activated by disco ball motors; Glow on, a selection of suspended glow-in-the-dark, low relief sculptures; and Lo visible, lo invisible, a single-channel short film. Blending humor, nostalgia, and a mix of personal and art-historical iconographies, López Llamas constructs an enveloping constellation of works in which the relationship between presence and absence is centered. Ghostly figures, disembodied limbs, and narrative speculation operate as recurring motifs through which the artist stages the instability of perception, inviting viewers to inhabit the porous threshold between material presence and imagined possibility.

A unique feature of A million more things to keep me awake is its carefully orchestrated choreography. Audiences are guided through the exhibition’s 2,000-square-foot expanse by lighting that shifts between illumination and darkness. Like our innermost aspirations and anxieties, certain artworks reveal themselves most fully in the latter state, while others emerge only under the former. Each cycle reconfigures the exhibition, opening space for unexpected acts of reflection and discovery.

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About the Artist:

Enrique López Llamas (b. 1993, Aguascalientes, Mexico) explores current phenomena through the appropriation and reinterpretation of strategies and visual imagery from art history and his personal experience. Through fiction, memory, humor, and nostalgia, he develops ideas that translate into media such as painting, video, performance, and installation. His recent 28-part sculptural installation at Mexico City’s Salón ACME, I Am the Resurrection and I Am the Life (2026), was featured in The Art Newspaper, Autre Magazine, Cool Hunting, and My Modern Met, among other publications. The artist recently completed the Tracey Emin Foundation’s Victoria House Residency program in Margate, UK.

López Llamas is a Graduate in Plastic Arts from the University of Guanajuato and member of the SOMA 2021 Educational Program. He has been a beneficiary of the Jóvenes Creadores grant from FONCA and PECDA. His work has been exhibited in Mexico and internationally, and is held in public and private collections.