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.