Viaje Hacia el Eclipse

April- June 2024, Museo de Arte de Mazatlán, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México.

Viaje hacia el Eclipse (Journey to the Eclipse) marks Eduardo Sarabia’s final exhibition in a trilogy of projects inspired by the total solar eclipse.

Born in Los Angeles to parents from Sinaloa, Sarabia has woven an autobiographical path through his work. The eclipse becomes for him both an introspective moment and a portal to spirituality and mysticism, a journey back to his roots that unfolds across different layers of identity. Between the cultural crossings of Mexico and the United States and his most personal fascinations, his works are marked by recurring motifs that build a shared symbolic language. An extended palm as a symbol of mystical knowledge, the quetzal as a guiding bird and the murals of tree roots in the patio that remind us of the sacred ceiba, are all threads that run through his practice.

 Prologue (London, 2023) and Four Minutes of Darkness (Mexico City, 2024), the exhibitions that preceded this one, form a journey of their own: from what is distant to what is close, beginning far away and culminating in a return home. Visitors follow Sarabia’s perspective in this passage of identity, beginning with the eclipse as a catalytic event and arriving at a body of work that is most emblematic of his practice. The journey suggests a truth both simple and profound: no matter how far one goes, one always returns home.

Through ceramics, painting, and sculpture, Sarabia presents a constellation of ideas rather than a chronological order—a network of connections that ultimately circles back to what has always nourished his artistic language: his roots. Motifs of communion with nature, ancestral knowledge, ritual and the weaving of past and present run throughout the exhibition, asking one of humanity’s most essential questions: where do we come from, and where are we going? The roots that embrace his works also summon the myths and creatures that have shaped his universe. The result of this journey reveals that the end is also the beginning and that all his roads lead back to Sinaloa.

 Thanks to the generosity of Grupo Venados and the Instituto Sinaloense de Cultura, the newly renovated Museo de Arte de Mazatlán opens its doors with this inaugural exhibition, organized in collaboration with OMR. This private initiative now offers a new public space for the Sinaloan community, one that strengthens culture and entertainment as essential pillars of collective well-being.