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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.

Interview

Interview with Patricia Conde: Photography as a Medium for Storytelling

by Josephine Dorr

Reading time

9 min

The group exhibition Veintidós at Patricia Conde Galería curated by Alejandro López López celebrates more than two decades dedicated to showcasing Mexican photography while tracing a portrait of the gallery’s history. We spoke with its founder about her commitment to photographers in the country, the international circulation of their work, and the formation of audiences around the medium. Throughout the conversation, Conde reflects on the power of photography, her vision, and the elements that have shaped the gallery’s consolidation as a key reference point for the medium in Mexico.

Review

Aurora Pellizzi at La Tallera: Constant Surprise

by María Olivera Monroy

Reading time

5 min

Above all, movement and insistence. The repetition of patterns is also a way of saying: “There is life here, there was play here.” Entrelazo, Aurora Pellizzi’s exhibition at La Tallera, dedicated to the memory of Carla Stellweg, who carried out the curatorial work, unfolds as a space of expansion and constant discovery—something akin to looking at things for the first time and being aware of it.