Enrique Martinez Celaya’s The Pearl (currently on view at SITE Santa Fe) has been chosen as one of Artforum’s Critics’ Picks. Here’s an excerpt from Ana Finel Honigman’s review:

Enrique Martínez Celaya’s “The Pearl” is an affecting meditation on nostalgia. Martínez Celaya constructs this exhibition like a tightly composed narrative poem involving a small cast of characters—a boy, a fox, a gaggle of different kinds of small woodland birds, and a German shepherd—depicted through paintings, chintzy figurines, sculptures, and installation. Nothing feels extraneous in Martínez Celaya’s dreamlike vision of a lost home and distant boyhood. His surreal narrative unfolds through a series of installations that viewers explore from room to room by following a clear hose hung from the ceiling. It is safe to say that this prosaic hose acts as a metaphor for Martínez Celaya’s memory, linking him back to his youth and the meaning behind all the melancholy totems in the show.

Read on here.

Enrique Martínez Celaya’s The Pearl will be on view at SITE Santa Fe through October 13, 2013.