Mexican artist Cynthia Gutiérrez (born 1978) is one of the leading figures of contemporary art in Mexico. Through her research-based projects, Gutiérrez navigates the relationship between past and present, memory and oblivion. Inhabiting Collapse is based on the exhibition of the same name at the Museo Cabañas in Guadalajara, in which, through the recognition and appropriation of sculptural language, she makes an incisive critique of the discourses that reproduce national identity and the political processes that maintain nation-states. Her work proposes a dialogue between reality and fiction and between the handmade and the reproduction dynamics of capital. Gutiérrez works across . . . .go to book page >>

In Ancestral Fears May Return, Mexican artist Paloma Contreras Lomas (born 1991) delves into the intricate relationship between art and writing, showcasing her artistic practice through a novel, a collection of short stories and an album of images of her art. In this compelling work, she examines the complicity of the landscape in the violence that permeates Mexico, addressing the various facets of patriarchy in everyday life and its underlying power structures. The fears she portrays are experiences that transcend individual lives, inherited from generation to generation, carrying with them the ghosts of the violence that Mexico has endured since . . . .go to book page >>

This midcareer survey documents the first retrospective for US-based Mexican artist Pedro Lasch (born 1975), celebrated for his socially engaged artworks and experimental pedagogy. The catalog encompasses 13 series of works created from the 1990s to the present and features four key thematic axes: art as a tool, games, fiction and displacement. Lasch conceives of his work as a means to politicize form. He creates both objects and process-based artworks with the capacity to function as tools for consciousness-raising, to address the systems that underpin social, political and economic relations. His work occupies a space between engagement and autonomy, traditional . . . .go to book page >>

Through her work, Mexican artist Wendy Cabrera Rubio (born 1993) investigates the temporal and narrative traces of Mexican identity, a history marked by the creation of a nationalism whose fixation on an Indigenous past wanders into the present. She is part of a generation of artists revisiting the history of Mexican arts and crafts with a multidisciplinary and pedagogical approach. Her practice explores the production and distribution of images; using strategies such as appropriation and performance, Rubio condenses arts and crafts, history and storytelling. This book focuses on the construction of mestizaje (meaning mixed race ) and the differences between a . . . .go to book page >>