Tramite | Collectors’ Bureau
About
Tramite is a platform dedicated to the production, promotion, exhibition, and commercialization of contemporary art. Its purpose is to foster synergies within an ephemeral system, aiming to cultivate new audiences and collectors.
Founded in Queretaro, Tramite reimagines unconventional (and vacant) spaces into a dynamic art fair experience. We collaborate with galleries, museums, and independent projects in Mexico City, San Miguel de Allende, Guadalajara, and beyond.
Under the name Espacio Efímero (Ephemeral Space), the program features over 40 activities, including talks, panel discussions, curator- and artist-led tours, virtual studio visits, routes through independent spaces, alternative exhibitions, deep listening sessions, live performances, and special events. These experiences aim to provide deeper insight into the artworks and the dynamic processes of every artist showcased in our Volumes.
Amor es la droga
Eduardo Sarabia
2020
Neon
Variable dimensions
Guest Artist
Gustavo Villegas
For Volume 5, we had the honor of showcasing Mexican visual artist Gustavo Villegas. His practice explores the destruction unfolding before us, the degradation, fragility, and deterioration of materials—elements that are constant in his artistic work, allowing him to appropriate these damaged human creations.
Installation
Colectiva Hilos
In 2019, a large red stain appeared in a park in Guadalajara and has since spread to cities such as Vallarta, Mexico City, Chihuahua, and Querétaro. This expansion has been made possible through the collaboration of dozens of people who joined Colectiva Hilos’ initiative to weave, with their own hands, a cry of frustration and a demand for justice against violence, femicides, and disappearances across the country.
This collective action has resulted in Sangre de mi Sangre (Blood of My Blood), an expansive fabric symbolizing the blood spilled daily, continuing to grow as a representation of collective consciousness. The piece has been installed in public spaces, monuments, museums, and galleries across several cities. For Trámite Vol 5, the project showcased the collective weavings that took place in Jalisco and Querétaro.
Sangre de mi sangre
Colectiva Hilos
Crochet (jute and raffia)
Variable dimensions
2020–2021
Activation piece
Title
Pieza en que se hace en hueco la forma que quiere darse en sólido a la materia que se vacía en él (Piece in Which the Hollow Shape Is Made to Give the Desired Solid Form to the Material Poured Into It)
Projects
Aberrante in collaboration with Filo.
Artists
Marco López, José Luis Arroyo, Víctor Bibián, and Eduardo García.
Statement
In an exercise of recreation and recovery—up to a certain extent—of bodily movements that have been co-opted by the system and the architectures of the current capitalist model, as well as by the COVID-19 pandemic, this piece proposes a participatory model aimed at addressing pedagogical questions that, from our perspective, arise from physical interactions with the material.
The installation operates on several levels: first, it explores and showcases clay as a material, presenting some of the possibilities it offers at different stages: raw, dry, and fired. On a second level, our refuge functions as a collaborative piece that requires public participation to be activated. This is intended to ensure that the result includes a variety of forms and concepts reflective of the context in which they were created.
Piece in Which the Hollow Shape Is Made to Give the Desired Solid Form to the Material Poured Into It consists of a series of intervened clay boxes, distributed across a textile canvas and side walls.
Through the perspective of curators and artists, we navigated this exhibition with tours and talks, generating new and diverse dialogues around contemporary art in México.
