Hugo Toro: Ojo de Agua presents new paintings in which water serves as the primary source of inspiration — painted in melancholic shades that reflect light, memory, and emotion. Born in France to a Mexican mother and a French father, Toro navigates the space between reality and imagination through landscapes that are psychological mappings rather than depictions. Mangroves with semi-aquatic, shifting roots recur as metaphors for a fluid heritage — a Mexico he never lived in yet carries as a powerful phantom through his mother's storytelling and the mythologies of his ancestral village in Oaxaca. Where words fail, thick, composite pigments succeed: the language of roots made material.
