y que le digo y que me dice: How Do You Edit an Art Text? Summary of Our Talk #4

On January 18, 2026, as part of the public program of Index Art Book Fair at kurimanzutto, Mexico City, the fourth session of y que le digo y que me dice took place, organized by Onda MX. This initiative emerged from the need to open a space for dialogue among artists, writers, and other thinkers around key issues that traverse artistic practices in Mexico.

The fourth talk, titled How Do You Edit an Art Text?, brought together editors Gaby Cepeda (tres tres tres), danie valencia sepúlveda (Terremoto), Diego del Valle Ríos (Arteinformado), and Sandra Sánchez (Onda MX). We believe their work establishes indispensable critical frameworks for reading and reflecting on contemporary art in the region, and that their editorial practices nourish and diversify our cultural ecosystem.

We organized the conversation in response to Index’s invitation to reflect in this edition on “the subversive potential of publications as opaque bodies: shadowy refuges where knowledge is transmitted in a low voice, like murmurs, deliberately circulating outside luminous circuits.”

We invite you to consult the recording of the session, in which the following questions were discussed:

1. In what ways do the texts you publish in your magazines generate fertile forms of opacity from which to approach artistic production?
2. As editors, what place do you give to textual experimentation by writers?
3. What relationship exists between the market and art writing?

Speakers

Gaby Cepeda: writer, art critic, and curator. Her work engages with counter-humanism to think through technology, feminisms, accelerationism, and labor conditions in the arts. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Art History / Contemporary Art at UNAM, where she also completed a master’s degree with honors. She holds a degree in Photography from UANL in Monterrey, participated in the Artists and Curators Program at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, taught curatorial studies at Escuela de Arte Corriente Alterna in Lima, and was invited as a guest professor at the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm. She is the founder and editor of tres tres tres, a Mexico City–based art criticism journal. She has served as assistant curator at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil and has published in e-flux, ArtReview, Artforum, Art in America, Financial Times, Terremoto, among others.

Diego del Valle Ríos practices editing and writing as strategies of critical provocation that weave together ethics, politics, and philosophy around the aesthetic practices that emerge through contemporary art systems. He was editorial director of Terremoto(2017–2021) and is currently Latin America editor at Arteinformado. He is also part of the editorial team of the independent journal tres tres tres.

Sandra Sánchez is an artist, curator, writer, and editor. Her work is grounded in the practical possibilities of art, collaboration, and listening as means to critically disrupt the sensory logics of neoliberalism. She is part of El Cuarto de los Ojos Sucios (a performative space dedicated to mediation, exhibition, and critical reflection on contemporary painting), Máquina Simple (an editorial research group), Círculo contra soundscape (a sound research group), and Ambient para leer (public-space installations focused on the intersection of sound, reading, rest, listening, and contemporary art). She edits Onda MXmagazine and is a lecturer at Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana.

danie valencia sepúlveda is a writer, translator, and independent educator. Since 2023, they have been editor-in-chief of the platform Terremoto. Their work focuses on the production of subjectivity, psychic suffering, and countercolonial imagination. They have published in platforms such as the São Paulo Biennial Foundation, FelipaManuela, and Balam magazine. They coordinate the study group Mental Health: Neoliberalism, Subjectivity, and Psychic Suffering at the independent space Obrera Centro and have participated since 2020 in the Nucleus for the Study and Research of Subjectivity coordinated by Suely Rolnik.

Translated into English by Luis Sokol

Cover picture by Pamela Limón