Liberating From my Mind

With Dolores 54

Photography by Sonora Horta López

Abril 1st - Abril 9th 2023

Liberating from My Mind, is a body of work by Saúl Acevedo Gómez that explores the artist’s lifelong struggle with external validation. Through symbolic figures with openings in their bodies, and paintings showing the back of the canvas, the works reveal moments of inner-excavation, vulnerability, and self-reconstruction. Some figures contain chairs or artworks, representing internalized thoughts, while others remain empty, reflecting silent or unresolved dialogues.

Key pieces include “Stop Worrying About Others,” where a blue figure with an opening shows another’s eye—symbolizing how we often let others’ opinions control us. In “A New Mental Map,” a figure stands in a water-filled room where the walls are covered by a deconstructed map. Its body resembles a rock where a new map forms, representing personal transformation through discipline, gratitude, and new ways of thinking.

In “Untitled Me,” a painting faces away from the viewer, revealing stretcher bars with the words “My Boring Life.” The piece examines how fear of judgment—especially around discipline and routine—leads to self-comparison and self-erasure, causing internal pain.

Together, these works explore themes of validation, self-perception, and the ongoing process of reshaping the mind to becoming free from hold ways of being through self-development.