The story that is told of the history of the human

APTO Gallery presents The Story Told of Human History, a group exhibition featuring Mariana Paniagua, Adios Paraíso, Marianela Castro, Laura Ramona Rocha, Luis C. Figueroa, Diego Inestrillas, Leonardo Ortega, Lucia Farrow, Cami James, and Tikal Smildiger.

We live through stories. We construct them constantly, almost without realizing it. There is the "I" who lives and the "I" who remembers: two versions of the same existence, separated by mere seconds, united by the narrative that keeps them together. What we think and who we are are built on what we tell ourselves, a story in constant construction, adjusting itself to each moment. In everyday life, these are the anecdotes we repeat until they become certainties. On a larger scale, it is History: a network of voices that have been told and retold, added and modified in a constant attempt to understand where we come from and where we are going. In art, stories take shape in something tangible, created by the "I" who lives, from the "I" who remembers. Thus, they inhabit form, gesture, and intuition. Narratives exist not only in what is said, but in how they are constructed. We no longer seek the strongest voice, but the one that resonates most with us. The way we relate to stories has changed: they are no longer imposed from a single place; they are in constant dialogue. We listen not only to what is said, but to how it connects with what we already know, with what we experienced, with what we choose to remember. Stories are not just what happened; they are what we choose to tell. And in that choice, in that selection of echoes, the present is shaped and the future is projected.

— Marines Salcedo