MEXICO CITY.- Mexico City’s art scene welcomes a powerful new voice this February as Jun Martínez presents his first solo exhibition in Mexico at adhesivo contemporary. Opening on February 3, 2026, during Mexico City Art Week, the exhibition will be on view through April 3, offering visitors an immersive encounter with painting as memory, territory, and resistance.

Rather than arriving with finished works, Martínez transforms the gallery itself into a site of creation. The exhibition takes the form of an in-situ installation of ten paintings produced directly within the space, allowing the process to remain visible and embedded in the architecture of the gallery. This approach underscores the artist’s interest in painting not as a static object, but as a living, responsive practice.

At the conceptual core of the exhibition are layered references that move fluidly across cultures and disciplines. Martínez draws from the Taíno myth of the Cave of Iguanaboina, the Japanese term komorebi—used to describe sunlight filtering through leaves—and a constellation of literary, religious, and art-historical sources. These elements converge to create a visual language that feels at once poetic and grounded, ancestral and contemporary.

Martínez’s work emerges from an ongoing investigation into landscape, the body, and the symbolic traces of the contemporary Caribbean. His paintings hover between the intimate and the political, inviting viewers into personal spaces that are inseparable from broader collective histories. Surfaces become sites of friction, where private memory collides with inherited narratives, and where paint itself operates as both an emotional archive and a form of visual defiance.

This exhibition also signals an important milestone for adhesivo contemporary, reinforcing the gallery’s commitment to amplifying critical voices from the Caribbean and Latin America. By foregrounding practices that challenge conventional ways of seeing and narrating the present, the gallery continues to position itself as a platform for artists reshaping contemporary discourse from the Global South and its diasporas.

Prior to this Mexico City debut, Martínez presented a solo exhibition at the Museo de San Juan in August 2025. He is currently based in London and holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Royal College of Art London. With this new body of work, Martínez brings his transnational practice into a fresh dialogue with Mexico City—one that promises to resonate long after the final brushstroke dries.