Manual intuitivo: no usar saliva ni soplar sobre las piezas

Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (MACG), Mexico City
Curated by Colectivo PETRA (Eugenia Ávila, Frisa Mesa and Manuel Pidal)
1 August – 2 November 2025

With Teresa Margolles, Mauricio Alejo, Fernando Palma, Mariana Ledesma, Carolina Vélez Muñiz, Roja Romo, Salvador Banda, Ramón Saturnino, Scott Galván, Juni Aranda Rubli, Rebeca Ramírez, Matías Meszaros Cervantes and Valentina Attolini, among others

Read about the exhibition on ARTEINFORMADO

Manual intuitivo: no usar saliva ni soplar sobre las piezas (Intuitive Manual: Do Not Use Saliva or Blow on the Pieces) set out to look closely at the work of an emerging generation of artists in Mexico, presenting it alongside artists with long-established careers. Borrowing the form of a conservation manual, the exhibition unfolded in four chapters, numbered 1.1 to 1.4, and opened an intergenerational dialogue around material, political and affective concerns, proposing other ways of thinking about the present