𝗗𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀
Curated by Erick Gonzalez Aguilar (
@almosterick )
Avant.Dev |
@londonartfair 2026 | Encounters Section, Stand E1
“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘭, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤, 𝘢𝘣𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺.” — Leticia Sánchez Medel, Milenio.
Diasporic Materials brings together four Mexican artists-
@sssaaarrr_ ,
@mariareboraaaa ,
@murakiit , and
@marianatoff -whose practices navigate the fertile tension between ancestral knowledge and digital futures.
The exhibition proposes materiality itself as a site of migration: clay, textile, glass, and pigment travel alongside algorithms, holograms, and artificial intelligence, forming unexpected kinships across time and technique.
In an era defined by accelerated displacement-of bodies, data, and meaning-these artists reclaim slowness as resistance and care as method Their works embody what we call diasporic materialities: hybrid forms that carry memory across borders, disciplines, and generations. Embroidery converses with code. Ceramics absorbs the logic of the screen. The ceremonial meets the entropic.
Through visions of soft accelerationism, abstraction, and ritual, these four artists reimagine care as a creative practice-care for communities, for materials and environment, and for artistic legacies yet to come. The works presented are not nostalgic; they are propositional.
They ask: what forms can hold our contradictions? What surfaces can register both wound and healing?
Diasporic Materials is an invitation to witness how contemporary art from Mexico is rewriting the terms of global conversation -not by abandoning tradition, but by setting it in motion.
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Video courtesy of
@takefivecomms
#LAF26
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