The Drawing Speaks

HERMÈS Artist Window, September 24 - December 8, 2025.

Hermès invites Eduardo Sarabia to transform the Molière boutique windows for its reopening in Mexico City with The Drawing Speaks, a temporary installation that turns the display windows into a contemporary, living, moving codex.

Inspired by Hermès’s annual theme “Driven by Drawing,” Sarabia envisions a language in which the line transcends languages and territories. Two-dimensional strokes unfold into motion and volume, while the figures that emerge from the fusion of the artist’s visual language and Hermès icons engage in a universal conversation through “wind bubbles” inspired by Aztec codices. In those codices, speech, words and ideas were represented by the “comma of the word,” a symbol through which humans, gods, animals and nature shared knowledge.

These animated windows pay tribute to voice and thought traveling between two worlds. A three-act narrative journey where craftsmanship and the dreamlike dialogue to awaken the viewer’s curiosity.

“I wanted to explore drawing not only as image, but as language. Inspired by the conversation between Mexico and France, I imagined animals and objects as storytellers—building bridges between cultures through symbols, silks and gestures. The installation is built in layers, like an animated painting: each piece in dialogue with the next. It is a story about what it means to communicate across borders: human with animal, spirit with craft, artist with viewer. A visual conversation without words.” — Eduardo Sarabia

You are invited to discover a new chapter in the Molière boutique, where drawing ceases to be static and becomes movement, poetry and living experience.

The installation can be visited at Hermès Molière boutique, El Palacio de Hierro Polanco, Mexico City, from September 24 to December 8, 2025.