A Solo Exhibition by Xime Robles G.
Curated by Alessandro Martina
Parco delle Stelle, Rome
July 12-15, 2026
Opening Reception: July 10, 2026, 6:30 PM
Performance by the artist: 8:30 PM
On July 10, 2026, Parco delle Stelle presents Bridge of Bones, a solo exhibition by Mexican artist Ximena Robles Gárate, curated by Alessandro Martina.
Drawing on Aztec cosmogony, Bridge of Bones explores creation as a perpetual cycle of birth, sacrifice, and transformation. At the heart of the exhibition lies the myth of Cipactli, the primordial earth deity whose sacrificed body became the mountains, rivers, and landscapes of the world. This foundational act establishes a vision of existence grounded in reciprocity, where humanity's responsibility toward nature becomes the path to transcendence.
The exhibition opens with the following words by curator Alessandro Martina:
Ancient Mother,
dream of us a little longer.
Live through us, as we shall live through you.
Forgive me for having stepped outside of life.
We have never truly been ready,
yet here we are, legitimizing both our love and our hatred
sacred acts
that keep us suspended, and teach us how to care for that suspension.
Through mythology and the use of her own body as both subject and medium, Robles reflects on the contradictions embedded in modern political sovereignty since the French Revolution. A bridge constructed from portraits of newborn children from the nursery where the artist once worked becomes a powerful metaphor for those historical moments in which institutional structures are sustained through the systematic disappearance, exclusion, or erasure of the very lives they claim to represent.
Rather than opposing life to death, the exhibition proposes a more complex understanding of their relationship. Life emerges not as death's triumph, but as a paradoxical condition in which vulnerability, transformation, and mortality become essential dimensions of human existence.
Nature functions as both material and interlocutor throughout the installation, opening a reflection on femininity, fertility, and generative power. Visitors are invited to reconsider their relationship with history and to question the origins of their own agency, transforming inherited forms of conditioning into acts of conscious creation. Echoing Jean Starobinski's reflections in 1789: The Emblems of Reason, the exhibition suggests that knowledge, no less than beauty, constitutes a fundamental path toward truth.
About the Artist
Xime Robles G. (Mexico City, 1999) studied at The German School Alexander von Humboldt before spending a formative year in Toronto, where she developed a deep interest in meditation and artistic practice. She later enrolled in the Painting Department at RUFA - Rome University of Fine Arts.
Alongside her artistic practice, she develops educational programmes for teachers and children while designing and coordinating institutional exhibitions. Her recent exhibitions include Lezioni di Resistenza (Spazio Y-Quadraro, Rome), Have You Seen Paolo Miller? (Piano Bi, Rome), and the solo exhibition Arpeggio (La Pace, Ischia). She currently collaborates with internationally acclaimed artist Uemon Ikeda and recently participated in A Space for Exchanges and Connections. Forms of Contemporary Japanese Art on the Italian Peninsula at Fondazione Venanzo Crocetti, Rome, organised to celebrate the 160th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Italy and Japan.
Curator
Alessandro Martina (Rome, 1999) is a poet, visual artist, and curator. After graduating from RUFA in 2022, he developed an interdisciplinary practice that intertwines visual art and poetry as complementary languages through which to investigate personal and collective experience.
Exhibition Information
Bridge of Bones
A solo exhibition by Xime Robles G.
Curated by Alessandro Martina
Performance: Xime Robles G.
Exhibition Dates: July 12-15, 2026
Opening Hours: 6:00-9:00 PM
Venue
Parco delle Stelle
Largo Settimio Passamonti
00185 Rome, Italy
Admission: Free