Myrna Quiñonez Puts a Surreal Spin on Landscape Tradition at Beers London

Beers London is set to unveil a new exhibition entitled The Horizon Pulled Me Close by Mexican artist Myrna Quiñonez. Born in Sinaloa and now based in Bristol, Quiñonez reimagines familiar and uncanny landscapes in a suite of lush paintings. Infusing technical traditions with a 21st century flair, the artist navigates the shifting terrain between memory, technology and the very idea of place.

The exhibition draws on landscapes from the artist’s past – the River Wye, the shores of Cornwall to the Los Mochis in Sinaloa – yet these places dissolve into liminal spaces that are both everywhere and nowhere at once. Fragmented and harmonious, these deconstructed scenes hint at a disconnection to the natural world, equally attending to a desire to return to nature and our increasingly digitized relationship to it.

“The horizon line functions as more than just a division; it mediates the relationship between land and sea, between the seen and the unseen,” Quiñonez explains. “It draws attention to an infinite expanse that feels simultaneously vast and intimate, emphasizing a distance that is at once monumental and minute.”

Through analog interpretations of Photoshop edits and drone photography, Quiñonez’s work lingers between these physical and virtual worlds, forging a mode of pixel perfection that aches for the raw, human gaze. As the gallery notes, “Not only is the landscape recaptured by traditional means imbued by technology, but they’re frozen and idealized, almost as an artist’s own futile attempt to capture, idealize and exist within a perfected landscape.“

The Horizon Pulled Me Close will be on view from November 28, 2024 until January 25, 2025.

Beers London
51 Little Britain,
London EC1A 7BH