MONTEZ PRESS RADIO BROADCASTING FROM MUSEO JUMEX

A series of live segments broadcast by Montez Press Radio from Museo Jumex. Elsa-Louise Manceaux: Voice Notes is the second iteration of Radio-Painting, a term and installation coined by the artist to describe a space where painting interlaces with media, as well as with intimate, emotional, and conceptual relationships mediated by distance and time.

The session will address a brief genealogy of painting in juxtaposition with new media, featuring Eduardo Costa, an Argentine artist key to the intersection of language, media, and painting; Alonso Robles, a border artist, lyricist, musician, and painter; Melanie Smith, whose practice has explored live transmission, painting, and performance; Daniela de la Torre, an artist exploring performance and textiles; and Elsa-Louise Manceaux.

Segment 1: Talking Painting Meets Radio-Painting Eduardo Costa, Elsa-Louise Manceaux, and Rosela del Bosque 12–1 PM

Segment 2: The New Spider Sense Alonso Robles A.K.A. 1444 1–2 PM

Segment 3: Are You Sure You Want to Delete Layer? Melanie Smith and Elsa-Louise Manceaux 2–3 PM

Segment 4: Why Would You Do Something Like That? A performance by Daniela de la Torre 3–4 PM

Montez Press Radio Montez Press is a contemporary art book publisher, and Montez Press Radio is a broadcast and performance space based in Chinatown, New York. They publish new monthly transmissions with artists, experimental musicians, writers, poets, and thinkers. Since early 2023, they have organized broadcasts in Mexico from various venues such as galleries, markets, museums, bars, and other cultural centers, hosted by Leah Whitman-Salkin and Fabiola Talavera.

Eduardo Costa (Buenos Aires, 1940) is an Argentine artist who lived twenty-five years in the United States and four in Brazil. He began his career in Buenos Aires as part of the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella generation and later continued in New York, where he made significant contributions to the local avant-garde. He has collaborated with American artists such as Vito Acconci, Scott Burton, John Perreault, and Hannah Weiner, among others. In Brazil, he took part in projects organized by Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape, Antonio Manuel, Lygia Clark, and other artists of the Rio de Janeiro school.

Elsa-Louise Manceaux (Paris, 1985) lives and works in Mexico City. Her pictorial practice explores the relationship between context, information, and matter. The themes she develops connect history with imagination; body(ies) with mind(s); the human with the non-human. Her work often intertwines the visual with humor, proposing installation formats and in-situ gestures. Her recent solo and group exhibitions include Orgasmos en el fondo at Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City (2023); Las épocas caleidoscópicas at Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara (2022); and Parasitajes / Ruidos Negros at Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (2020).

Alonso Robles (Ciudad Juárez, 1998) is a visual artist. He earned his BFA in Visual Arts from the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. He has held solo exhibitions at Galería Azul Arena (2023) and the Museum of Contemporary Art and Oaxacan Cultures (MACCO, 2025), and participated in group shows in cities such as Mexico City, Los Angeles, and New York. His work has been featured in fairs like Material (Mexico City, 2024) and residencies such as Cobertizo. He was a FONCA Young Creators grantee in 2022, and his work has been selected for numerous national and international open calls.

Melanie Smith (Poole, 1965) lives and works between Mexico City and London. Her work, developed across various media, reflects on the expanded field of painting within art history and its entanglement with the moving image. Her early works explore the idiosyncrasies of crowds, chaos, and aberrant forms of urbanism. Later, her interests extend to the effects of extractivism on ecosystems and specific environments in Latin America. The spiral and the palimpsest appear as recurring modes of thought, functioning as elements that weave connections between industrialization, nature, the body, archaeology, and scale.

Daniela de la Torre (Querétaro, 1997) holds a degree in Visual Arts from ENPEG “La Esmeralda” and the University of Oxford. Her performance and textile work interrupts the everyday to offer a moment of suspended reason—a backdrop for a strange romantic encounter. Through anecdotes, fabric scraps, songs, and pop references, she explores what we underestimate, deem pathetic, or feel ashamed of. Her situationist actions expose emotions such as guilt, forgiveness, and compassion, using humor, sewing, lip-syncing, patchwork, and other “DIY” crafts to create safe spaces where excessive emotion becomes both comforting and suffocating. Sewing appears as a ritual gesture attempting to stitch together fragments of experience.

Cintia Garcilazo (Mexico City, 1988) is an art educator and cultural manager. She has coordinated mediation programs at the Centro de la Imagen and currently collaborates with the Cultura Comunitaria program of Mexico’s Ministry of Culture.

— Museo Jumex