How Many Angels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin?, by Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, is the first solo exhibition presented at Collegium, featuring all new works. The show explores how structures such as religion and the market influence identity and the body. Held at the Church of San Martín, the exhibition engages in a dialogue with the history and symbolic weight of this space.
Taking its title from Carlos Monsiváis's text Nuevo catecismo para indios remisos, the exhibition ironically questions the mechanisms of indoctrination and their relationship with consumption and capitalism. Sánchez-Kane uses fashion as a critical tool, creating sculptures and garments that evoke uniforms, armors, and sacred figures. Her materials—leather belts, bronze, punching bags, and flagpoles—transform symbols of authority and discipline into forms of expression and resistance.
The exhibition connects religion and fashion, both as systems that regulate behavior and desires. In this transforming space, Sánchez-Kane's work breaks traditional hierarchies and suggests new forms of autonomy. How Many Angels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin? is a reflection on the structures that shape bodies and their habits.
