y que le digo y que me dice: Future Archaeology and Neo-Prehistory. Summary of our 3rd talk

On November 29, 2025, at the Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City, the third session of y que le digo y que me dice, organized by Onda MX, took place. This initiative arose from the need to open a space for dialogue for artists, writers, and other thinkers around the axes that cut across artistic practices in Mexico. Based on recurring symptoms in the works produced and in the texts published in our digital magazine, we seek to generate an exchange of ideas, sensations, and intuitions from and with the community.

The third talk, titled Arqueología futura y neo prehistoria [Future Archaeology and Neo-Prehistory,] brought together artists Ileana Moreno and Jorge Rosano Gamboa with art historian and curator Eliza Mizrahi. The conversation was moderated by the magazine’s editor, Sandra Sánchez. We decided to address this topic because, throughout the last decade, artists—across various media and regions of the country—have carried out an updating of pre-Hispanic symbols and motifs, proposing narratives and visualities where different affects, temporalities, and histories are at play.

We invite you to watch the recording of Arqueología futura y neo prehistoria, where the following themes were discussed:

• The distinction between the linear conception of the archive and the anachronistic overlays of an atlas.
• The deferred presence of the spectral.
• The updating of Mesoamerican symbols and attributes as that which identifies, grants a function, and/or a power in the works of Jorge Rosano Gamboa and Ileana Moreno.
• The inaugural as an alternative to the original.
• The ability of works to sustain themselves both conceptually and through their materiality.

— Translated to English by Luis Sokol