Mexico 2026

Title: Actos invisibles para sostener el universo
Commissioner: Andrés Valtierra
Curator: Jessica Berlanga Taylor
Exhibitors: RojoNegro (María Sosa e Noé Martínez)

Actos invisibles para sostener el universo, by the artist collective RojoNegro, offers a moment of respite from the noise of the contemporary world. Conceived as an invocation, the installation activates ancestral memory and different forms of intelligence through contemplation, within a ritual temporality that brings together decolonial perspectives, relational ecologies, and Indigenous, Afro-Mexican and rural cosmologies.

The tobacco plant, associated with the protection of mental balance and the induction of altered states of consciousness, welcomes visitors into the exhibition. The material elements – salt, clay and tobacco – unfold like a constellation of sensory memories, accompanied by an audiovisual recording in which breathing sets the rhythm, intertwining with the sounds of the earth.

Sound, matter and memory come together to create an experience that opens up a space for attentive and sustained listening. Here, the interdependence of bodies, territories and temporalities becomes perceptible, without being confined to a single interpretation.