Jill Magid at Galería Labor
As another exploration of the catalysts that drive human behavior, Jill Magid has continued her investigation of gun violence in Texas with the exhibition titled Faust 24 at Galería Labor in Mexico City. Recently, the issues of context and translation have been on my mind more and more since I’m crossing a border and working [...]
DF Chats: Calixto Ramirez in Austin
I recently had the pleasure of curating a video show at Tiny Park Gallery in Austin, Texas titled the Time and Space of Calixto Ramirez. The exhibition was a show of video work produced by ar Calixto Ramirez, an artist I met in Mexico City who has been living and working there for the better part of [...]
DF Chats: Christina Sukhgian Houle Part II
Part II of my fantastic chat with artist Christina Sukhgian Houle who is in Mexico City for six weeks as part of the SOMA summer artist in residency project. We chat about the residency, culture shocks, noise and transition, sepia tones and cantinas… LMC: So talk to me a little bit more about SOMA. [...]
DF Chats: Christina Sukhgian Houle
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of sitting with artist Christina Sukhgian Houle who is in Mexico City for six weeks as part of the SOMA summer artist in residency project. Christina recently graduated from Texas State University in San Marcos and is preparing for her move it New York City to begin [...]
El Museo Soumaya: It’s just as confused as I am
I always find it curious when art institutions decide to go into ambitious building programs. Typically the reasoning is the same: to offer a space in which the public is invited to enjoy the works of art in the collection, or the exhibitions produced specifically for the space. Either way, it always seems as though [...]
Yautepec Gallery/Anibal Catalan
Throughout a weekend of constant seismic activity and back-to-back aftershocks I braved the constantly trembling ground on Friday and made the short trek further into the San Rafael neighborhood to visit the Yautepec Gallery for the first time. The gallery itself is a self-proclaimed “experimental space with an appetite for risk.” Yautepec is certainly off [...]
Tlatelolco: A history of a city
I had the incredible privilege of visiting the community of Tlatelolco last week. Tlatelolco is one of the places in the city that has long been avoided, was falling apart, and known more for its infamous, sordid history rather than its current potential. Tlatelolco literally sits a few miles north west of the original site [...]
2012 Elections: It’s gotten personal…
This year is an election year in Mexico. This election will be a pivotal one for the entire country. I was living in Mexico City when the current president, Felipe Calderón was elected to office in 2006 with an extremely controversial win that left most demanding a recount (sound familiar to everyone stateside?) and a [...]
Sometimes the ground just has to shake a bit…
There was an earthquake a few weeks ago. It was a 6.8 that originated from the state of Guerrero only a few hours south of Mexico City. For those that have never been in a quake, take it from me that it’s absolutely terrifying, and this one was no exception. Mexico City sits in a [...]
LMC y Pensamientos pochosos: The beginning
I had to think long and hard about what to title this blog. I’ve never been good with titles, and this was certainly no exception. It also presented the interesting challenge of describing in two short words the nature of what I would be writing. While I am living and working in Mexico City, and [...]