Contra la nostalgia: Las Pulgas

Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
Curated by Víctor Palacios and Raúl Rueda
2023

With Clemente Aguirre, Valentina Attolini, Sonia Bandura, Temoc Camacho, Erin Curry, Cristian Franco, Sofía Goscinski, Denise Julieta, Julián Madero, Jou Morales, Diego Orendain and Beatriz Zamora

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Contra la nostalgia: Las Pulgas (Against Nostalgia: The Fleas) brought together twelve artists who return again and again to the forms and images of the past, a gesture that from the outside can look like nostalgia. Rather than reading it that way, the curators proposed stepping back to look at how artists act before a story takes hold. Drawing on Walter Benjamin’s call to brush history against the grain, the exhibition asked whether it is possible to work neither with nor against the dominant narrative, but outside it. The flea became its emblem: not something that hides in the fur, but a restless body that leaps from one place to the next, refusing a single line of time.