Objects Do Not Fall from the Sky
Norberto Roldan

MO_Space | Main Gallery
15 December 2021 – 16 January 2022

“The title of Norberto Roldan’s most recent solo exhibition at MO_Space, Objects Do Not Fall from the Sky, appropriates a seminal provocation by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong. In thinking about the genealogy of revolutionary ideas, Mao asks 'Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No… They come from social practice, and from it alone… It is man’s social being that determines his thinking.' In Mao’s discernment, revolutionary ideas ('correct ideas'), as soon as they are 'grasped by the masses,' become 'material force' capable of transforming society and the world.”

–Carlos Quijon Jr.