Homecoming Gallery proudly presents Resolana at Zona Maco ’25.
Resolana—the Spanish word for both sunlight’s reflected warmth as well as a space for societal reflection — is the title for the duo exhibition by Johnny Mae Hauser and Aldo van den Broek at Zona MACO ‘25 Through her abstract photography and his layered paintings, the artist couple present a dialogue on the human experience of impermanence, resilience, and renewal. Their work is both deeply personal and a tribute to Mexican culture, while also offering a universally relevant response to contemporary socio political currents.
In Lotería de los Muertos, Aldo van den Broek transforms discarded materials—cardboard, wood, fabric, and soil—into layered paintings mirroring the chaotic interplay of collapse, endurance and reconstruction. “Living on the margins teaches you one thing: nothing is permanent. The city spits these materials out, and I rebuild them—not to save them, but to show how little control we really have.”
Inspired by Mexico’s lotería and Día de los Muertos, archetypal figures like El Rebelde (The Rebel), El Conquistador(The Conqueror), and La Muerte (Death) explore themes of rebellion, power, and mortality. Others, like La Ofrenda (The Offering) and La Revelación (The Revelation), evoke resilience, remembrance, and the search for meaning amid collapse.
Van den Broek’s Lotería de los Muertos are chronicles connecting lived experiences, Mexico’s cultural symbolism and global fractures—political unrest, war, and ecological collapse. “It’s like a global lotería now. The cards keep turning up worse: death, rebellion, conquest. And the deck feels stacked against us.”Yet his scarred, tactile works are at the same time a meditation on our humanity’s enduring capacity for transformation, suggesting moments of fragile renewal.
Johnny Mae Hauser is a Dutch-German artist known for her abstract compositions and introspective meditations that push the boundaries of photography and explore the imaginative engagement of the medium.
At the heart of Hauser’s practice is a profound exploration of transience—where memory, perception, and emotion converge. By bridging intimate moments with collective human experience, Hauser creates work of light and colour that transcend the concept of a photograph, better described as atmospheric reflections on the fleeting beauty of existence.
Hauser created her Resolana works between Amsterdam and Mexico, dissolving the line between the tangible and the intangible, creating a dreamlike realm that invites the viewer to engage with what is felt rather than seen.