y que le digo, y que me dice | Talk #3

From Onda MX, we invite you to the talk Futuristic Archeology and Neo-Prehistory, the third in the series, y que le digo, y que me dice, Symptoms in Contemporary Artistic Production.

This program of conversations, organized by Josephine Dorr, director of Onda MX, and Sandra Sánchez, editor of the magazine, aims to create a space for dialogue among artists, writers, and other thinkers about the ongoing symptoms that traverse contemporary artistic production in Mexico. Based on recurring themes in the practices and texts published by Onda, we seek to generate an exchange of ideas, sensations, and intuitions within and with the community.

The conversation will take place at Museo Anahuacalli, Mexico City, on Saturday, November 22, at 12 pm.

Participants: Eliza Mizrahi, Ileana Moreno, Jorge Rosano Gamboa and Sandra Sánchez

Eliza Mizrahi
She holds a BA in Art History from the Instituto de Cultura Superior, with the thesis Profiles and Guidelines of Contemporary Art (2006); an MA in Philosophy from Universidad Iberoamericana, with the thesis Poetics of Difference (2011); and a PhD in Philosophy from Universidad Iberoamericana, with the thesis Franja: Production and Symptom of Politics (2015). She has taught at the Colegio de Saberes since 2012 and at the Instituto de Cultura Superior, among others. She has been an adjunct professor at Universidad Iberoamericana since 2011 and at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in the graduate program in Art Studies. Since 2011, she has been a research academic in the research line “Critical Studies of Culture” at Universidad Iberoamericana, and since 2015, an associate researcher in the university’s research chair Deterritorialization of Power: Body, Diaspora, and Exclusion. Aesthetics, Politics, and Violence in Globalized Modernity. Her research areas include aesthetics, politics, critical theory, visual culture, and post-structuralism. She has published extensively on art, literature, film, and philosophy.

Ileana Moreno
She holds a BA in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Art and Design at UNAM (2013–2017), and completed studies in Art History at FES, UNAM (2010–2012). Her work has been exhibited in Mexico, the United States, Japan, and Germany; it is part of private collections in Mexico and has received multiple awards and recognitions throughout her career. She was a Jóvenes Creadores grantee (2022–2023). She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Visual Arts, specializing in Painting, in UNAM’s Graduate Program in Arts and Design. Her practice consists of a constellation of visual proposals that explore relationships between symbolic-mythological objects and analogies informed by visual references drawn from the pop imaginaries of different decades and cultures.

Jorge Rosano Gamboa is an artist whose work stems from photographic thinking and moves through painting, sculpture, and installation, underscoring the importance of the relationship between the instant and its representation: the ritual of creating an image, its recording, its methods, its ghosts, and above all, the captured moment itself. His recent work explores the richness of Latin American culture, drawing inspiration from its artistic traditions, folklore, and the magical thinking of a deeper Mexico. Rosano Gamboa graduated from La Esmeralda (2011), completed postgraduate studies at SOMA (2017), and participated in the photography seminar at the Centro de la Imagen (2005). He has held solo exhibitions in Mexico, Berlin, London, and Paris, and was selected for two editions of the Photography Biennial (2016 and 2018). This year he took part in the Casa Nano residency in Tokyo, presented a solo exhibition at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Paris, and is currently showing a solo exhibition at Saenger gallery.

Sandra Sánchez
An artist, curator, writer, and editor. Her work is grounded in the practical possibilities of art, collaboration, and listening to critically challenge the sensitive logics of neoliberalism. She is part of El Cuarto de los Ojos Sucios (a performance space dedicated to mediation, exhibition, and critical reflection on contemporary painting), Máquina Simple (editorial research group), Círculo contra el soundscape (sound research group), and Ambient para leer (public space installations exploring intersections of sound, reading, rest, listening, and contemporary art). She edits the Onda MX magazine and teaches at Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana.

A recording of the talk will be available on our YouTube channel, and a written summary can be consulted on ondamx.art (Magazine section).

Many thanks to Museo Anahuacalli and Félix.

Cover image: works by Ileana Moreno y Jorge Rosano Gamboa