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Imagining the End of Times: Tales of Annihilation, Apocalypse, and Extinction

by Mariana Lagunes

At the Museo Nacional de Antropología

Reading time

6 min

The unfinished Chthulucene must collect up the trash of the Anthropocene, the exterminism of the Capitalocene, and chipping and shredding and layering like a mad gardener, make a much hotter compost pile for still possible pasts, presents, and futures.

Review

Temporeros*, day laborers, graffiti artists: what photos would you take in the endless city? Gibrán Turón at Proyectos Monclova

by Verana Codina

Reading time

7 min

Gibrán Turón presents Éxitos humildes [Humble Successes], his latest solo exhibition, as part of El dilema de unir los puntos [The Dilemma of Connecting the Dots], a series of curations by artist Néstor Jiménez for Proyectos Monclova. The artist, in his Nayarit accent, somewhat satirical, introduced me to his show with the phrase: "I was like a kind of jornalero [day laborer] of graffiti."

Review

My home is a frenzy, I am very emotional and on top of that, I write. On 'Casa Ideal' [Ideal Home]

by Nico Barraza

At Proyectos Multipropósito

Reading time

7 min

I long to permeate the matter of this world: to become anchored to life by laundry and lilacs, daily bread and fried eggs [...]

Review

Anatomy of Hunger. Jorge de León at the Zarur Collection

by Gabriel Sánchez-Mejorada

Reading time

3 min

Around five years ago, when I started my career as a visual arts teacher, I came across the pedagogical and creative possibilities, the production of epistemology, and the questioning that memory maps generate. They allow us to contemplate images through their dynamic, shifting, and ever-open positions.