Elegance, essence, coctail, three words that could very well sum up the ethos of this exhibition decorate the front of a handbag that Brittany Shepherd found during her visit to Mexico, on the occasion of her recent exhibition The Last Laugh at Deli Gallery.

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Travesia Cuatro gallery showcases Jason Isaacs' (UK, 1968) solo exhibition. Its title is taken from the eponymous novel by Malcolm Lowry, published in 1947, which unfolds in Mexican territory. Besides serving as a possible hint towards the project's intention to match the host country, this title also nudges us to redirect our attention to another era. The focus does not center on the book's timeline but on the lifespan of a volcano: an ancient, dormant presence that predates any civilization. The exhibition text states that the artist visited Pompeii in 2023. The complete obliteration of this site and its neighboring town, Herculaneum, due to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, frames the narrative explored in this exhibition.

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The unfinished Chthulucene must collect up the trash of the Anthropocene, the exterminism of the Capitalocene, and chipping and shredding and layering like a mad gardener, make a much hotter compost pile for still possible pasts, presents, and futures.

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Gibrán Turón presents Éxitos humildes [Humble Successes], his latest solo exhibition, as part of El dilema de unir los puntos [The Dilemma of Connecting the Dots], a series of curations by artist Néstor Jiménez for Proyectos Monclova. The artist, in his Nayarit accent, somewhat satirical, introduced me to his show with the phrase: "I was like a kind of jornalero [day laborer] of graffiti."

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