Avantgardo

General Expenses presents Once Upon a Time in Chapultepec Heights, a solo exhibition by artist Avantgardo.

In Once Upon a Time in Chapultepec Heights, Avantgardo focuses this irreverent lens on the plush world of art collecting in Las Lomas. Within a landscape of polished floors and controlled routines, housekeepers quietly shape duplicate keys out of simple Zote soap bars, creating small fractures in the carefully curated fantasy of security that encloses these homes. With a mix of humor and precision, the artist reveals how luxury and vulnerability sit side by side, and how the smallest gestures can expose deeper structures of power, access and secrecy. What appears at first like a minor detail becomes a telling crack. It opens onto the fragility of privilege, the social choreography that keeps these mansions running and the parallel stories that unfold just outside the spotlight.

— General Expenses