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Interview

Headstrong Artists Sprout from the Desert: A Conversation with Curator Mayté Miranda on the Mexicali Art Week

by Josephine Dorr

Reading time

10 min

I had barely landed when the Semana del Arte Mexicali team invited me to try the city's signature cuisine: Chinese food. Seated with nearly twenty others—among them guests of the talks and workshops program, including writer Chris Kraus, artists Abraham Cruzvillegas and Ingrid Hernández, and curator Marielsa Castro—we tried to catch the dishes spinning quickly on a Lazy Susan at the center of the round table.

Review

When Does a Work of Art End? No-Objetualismos at Museo Universitario del Chopo

by Carolina Magis Weinberg

Reading time

10 min

To move through the exhibition No-Objetualismos. Hacia un pensamiento visual independiente at Museo Universitario del Chopo is to discover a new world. It is a journey to a Latin America in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, a time when art seemed to be in a state of ebullition, bubbling up everywhere with a refreshing lucidity. The exhibition's main angle is to explore no-objetualismos through the multiple facets and approaches in each country, as well as the referents and agents of art, from both theory and practice. Originally presented at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, the show is updated and enriched in Mexico with local context through a dialogue between the exhibition's original curator in Colombia, Jorge Lopera, and curator Miguel A. López of Museo Universitario del Chopo.

Review

Pain, Materiality, and Bodies in "¿Cómo salimos?" by Teresa Margolles at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey

by Zara Almazán

Reading time

5 min

The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO) presents ¿Cómo salimos?, the first major survey of Teresa Margolles’s career in the Americas. The exhibition brings together more than two decades of artistic practice that reveals the body, absence, and death as affective cartographies of violence. Through an anthropological and geographical mapping of emotions, politics, bonds, and relationships to violence, it renders visible realities, intimacies, and identities.

Review

Attention Fixed on Mutation: On “Deseos Diferentes” at Museo Cabañas

by Alejandra Arreola

Reading time

6 min

The group exhibition Deseos Diferentes, curated by Dorothée Dupuis, brings together ten artists who were born in or currently live in Mexico: Claribel Calderius, Nicole Chaput, Débora Delmar, Elsa-Louise Manceaux, Melanie McLain, Adeline de Monseignat, Sofía Moreno, Berenice Olmedo, Athenea Papacostas, and Paloma Rosenzweig. The exhibition affirms that feminisms expand horizons and foster new ways of conceiving body, language, and world, while opening pathways toward desires yet to come.