“CAPÍTULO V: HEAT”
Lago | Algo, Ciudad de México, 2024
How to do things with art? How might it be a vehicle for engaging socially and politically with the world? Amid an ecological catastrophe of a colossal magnitude, the question of art’s relevance to society has only become more urgent, and it was the driving force behind “Capítulo V: Heat.” Dwelling on human-produced disasters and addressing the immediacy of climate change, the exhibition relied on fire-related metaphors to bring together four vastly dissimilar projects. According to the curatorial premise, each echoed a type of combustion: slow, rapid, spontaneous, and explosive.