The group exhibition Veintidós at Patricia Conde Galería curated by Alejandro López López celebrates more than two decades dedicated to showcasing Mexican photography while tracing a portrait of the gallery’s history. We spoke with its founder about her commitment to photographers in the country, the international circulation of their work, and the formation of audiences around the medium. Throughout the conversation, Conde reflects on the power of photography, her vision, and the elements that have shaped the gallery’s consolidation as a key reference point for the medium in Mexico.

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Above all, movement and insistence. The repetition of patterns is also a way of saying: “There is life here, there was play here.” Entrelazo, Aurora Pellizzi’s exhibition at La Tallera, dedicated to the memory of Carla Stellweg, who carried out the curatorial work, unfolds as a space of expansion and constant discovery—something akin to looking at things for the first time and being aware of it.

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Dear Tania,

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The blacks in Yvonne Venegas’s photographs possess a fullness similar to the darkness we see when we close our eyes, or to the moment when the lights dim just before a play begins. Both require that interval before we enter the terrain of the dreamlike or the fictional; both are distinct states of reverie. The exhibition Drama mexicano is presented at Lateral, only a few steps from FOCO Lab. Entering a space devoted to exhibiting photographic practices produces singular experiences like that darkness made of ink, inviting us to lose ourselves in the loving—or funereal—stillness of the photograph, as Roland Barthes once described it.

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