Lebrija’s work addresses power structures, figures of authority, and established hierarchies in Mexico that are relevant to societies elsewhere. Central to this theme is the main work in this exhibition, Chivastar (2007). The work was made right after the first of the year when Lebrija was asked to photograph the Chivas, who are the country’s most popular football team and the artist’s favorite. In Lebrija’s work, the players and their coaches, executives and owners are closely guarded by the Mexican military.

In another set of photographs, Playing High (2005), a group of lawyers in Guadalajara pose in a wood-paneled executive board room, as if in a Baroque bureaucracy, and appear to evaluate a paper airplane and whether it will take flight.

A third work is the video Asterión (2006). In this video a slim athletic businessman with an Armani suit, tie and briefcase attempts to ride a bull. The work is graceful, slow and steamy until the very end, when he finally comes undone.