NADA Miami 2025

Wide installation view of the PROXYCO Gallery booth at NADA Miami 2025. The monumental multi-panel painting Viendo el Monte Calvario by Lucía Vidales dominates the center wall, depicting a dreamlike landscape with floating figures, a ladder, trees, and a river in vivid blues, greens, reds, and yellows. Smaller figurative paintings hang on the left and right walls. Upholstered seating in the foreground, dark reflective floor, industrial ceiling with track lighting.
Wide installation view of the PROXYCO Gallery booth at NADA Miami 2025, without foreground furniture. The large-scale multi-panel painting Viendo el Monte Calvario by Lucía Vidales spans the center wall, flanked by smaller figurative paintings on both sides. Dark reflective floor, industrial ceiling with track lighting.
Detail view of Viendo el Monte Calvario by Lucía Vidales, a 30-foot multi-panel painting shown at NADA Miami 2025. The dreamlike landscape depicts floating figures, a ladder ascending into a luminous sky, trees, and a dark river below, painted in vivid blues, greens, reds, and yellows.
Two figurative paintings by Lucía Vidales on a white wall. A small work with warm red and pink tones depicts a seated figure. Beside it, a larger painting on a vivid blue ground shows ghostly overlapping figures rendered in pale blues, grays, and soft pinks.
Two figurative paintings by Lucía Vidales on a white wall. A smaller square work depicts entangled forms in muted grays and reds. The larger painting beside it shows two intertwined human figures in yellow, red, and blue against a dark ground, with skulls and organic forms emerging from the composition.
Corner installation view of the PROXYCO Gallery booth at NADA Miami 2025. The left wall features two figurative paintings by Lucía Vidales in warm and cool tones. The right wall displays a large-scale section of the multi-panel painting Viendo el Monte Calvario, showing trees, a ladder, and figures in a vivid dreamlike landscape. Two curved wooden stools with painted tops are placed in the foreground.

Lucía Vidales
NADA Miami 2025
Booth B501

PROXYCO Gallery presents a solo booth featuring one of Lucía Vidales’ most ambitious works to date: Viendo el Monte Calvario (Looking at Mount Calvary), 2020, a 30-foot-long painting composed of eight panels. Originally commissioned for the historic Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros in Mexico City — the former studio of David Alfaro Siqueiros — the work enters into dialogue with a painting Siqueiros made during his imprisonment at Lecumberri prison, in which Christ is reimagined not as a religious icon but as a political prisoner and symbol of dissent.

Vidales returns to this charged iconography with both reverence and critical distance. In her hands, the crucifixion site becomes a fantastical, dreamlike terrain where ladders float, figures ascend and tumble, and Christ is conspicuously absent — a liminal space of constant transformation rooted in centuries of Mexican visual culture, from viceregal painting to surrealism.

Flanking this monumental work is a selection of paintings and drawings from El fuego que no produce (The Fire That Does Not Ignite), 2023, Vidales’ first solo exhibition in Mexico, continuing her engagement with towering figures of Mexican modernism and the complex dynamics of power, legacy, and resistance.