2025 ~ Eduardo Robledo - Seller of Dreams
Linocut relief print – 11″ × 15″
Edition of 100
ARTIST’S STATEMENT AND BIOGRAPHY
When we yearn for or desire something, we often look toward the sky —thus, the clouds represent those dreams. In life, our most valuable possession is time; how many times have we wished we had had more time to do something, or to spend with someone? In this piece, time is represented by the clock. Throughout life, we must always yearn, soar, or dream without ever losing touch with the ground; for this reason, the characters stand atop an armadillo—a cautious animal that never lifts its feet from the earth.
Born and raised in Xochimilco, an ancient borough of Mexico City where pre-Hispanic agricultural traditions and elaborate ceremonial life remain living forces, Eduardo Robledo Romero discovered printmaking as an undergraduate at UNAM, where he was invited to participate in a workshop supporting Indigenous communities. He is now co-founder of Lugar de huida, a gallery dedicated to Mexican printmakers, and works in linocut — a medium he values for its democratic multiplicity and deep roots in Mexican social movements.
Robledo’s prints draw on his grandfather’s stories, years of research, and his own encounters to explore the spiritual ecology of Xochimilco: nahuales, tiemperos, sacred plants, skulls, and the cycles of harvest and death that structure both the calendar and the cosmos. His compositions – often unified within a single containing torm — reflect a worldview in which Indigenous and European beliefs, the natural and the oniric, the earthly and the ancestral, are not in tension but held together in careful, interdependent balance.
