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Feria Material, Vol. 11 : After years of witnessing its evolution, I’ve seen how Mexico’s Art Week has transformed into the revealing moment we all anticipated: a space where we can finally breathe fresh air in contemporary art. This is where I discover narratives that break with the established, where I encounter proposals that challenge the limits of traditional painting and transcend conventional market logic. It’s the place where each year I rediscover art through new languages, unexplored materialities, and voices that force us to rethink history itself. It’s not just a week of exhibitions; it’s our moment of rupture and renewal thanks to the Latin American artistic landscape.
This art week, with Zona Maco as its epicenter, is an authentic madness of events, exhibitions, and all types of cutting-edge programming in current art and culture that takes you to a perpetual aphrodisiac state of vitality and desire to learn more about everything you see. It’s in this satellite environment where Feria Material, Vol. 11, has established itself as a vital space where multiple identities and voices of contemporary art converge. A laboratory of critical thinking and social reflection that energizes the dialogue between Latin America and the global art scene, exploring new materialities and languages that define our era: from digital to sustainable, from ephemeral to experiential.
Feria Material, Vol. 11, transcends its commercial role to celebrate Latin American creative energy as a distinctive force in global art, where 72 exhibitors from 20 countries nurture an ecosystem where emerging and established artists, gallerists, curators, and collectors not only exchange works but participate in constructing narratives that question our contemporaneity. The fair currently shares some of its exhibitors and projects with Art Basel, ARCO, and Frieze, something that makes it a reference point and which I believe is thanks to its curatorial statement and well-scaled objectives, betting on curated projects approached with a unitary reflection perspective. The Selection Committee includes Beatriz López (Instituto de Visión, Bogotá/New York), Christopher Rivera (EMBAJADA, San Juan), and Francisco Cordero-Oceguera (Lodos, Mexico City).
“Within Material, we support galleries and projects that aren’t as established as commercial projects, we invite projects that represent an alternative way of existing and that show us more possibilities within the art market.”
- Francisco Cordero-Oceguera (Selection committee member and director of Lodos Gallery)
In this sense, the curation of projects has been considered fundamental, as well as the narrative that defines each gallery. The continuous support that these galleries provide to their artists, both in commercial and institutional spheres, has also been valued, as well as initial projects where young artists shape the present of creation.
“Each selection committee member brings their own subjectivity, that’s what generates dialogue to make the fair democratic. The galleries’ annual programming is fundamental, that it has conceptual follow-through, that they support their artists continuously and promote them in the institutional scene; if they are emerging and more independent projects, that they are generating visibility for the artists.”
- Francisco Cordero-Oceguera (Selection committee member and director of Lodos Gallery)
The selection of proposals articulates a discourse that goes beyond market trends, privileging projects that challenge traditional art conventions and explore new media, materials, and forms of expression that reflect the complexities of our time.
This materializes with the incorporation of prestigious galleries such as Albarrán Bourdais (Madrid), Galería Sendrós (Buenos Aires), and Espacio Continuo (Bogotá), and a notable presence of artists linked to Latin America in foreign galleries that contribute to weaving an increasingly deeper dialogue.
“One of the fair’s objectives is to generate a bridge, a meeting point between galleries from Latin America and the United States, focusing on nearby projects that weave narratives. We seek to generate a conversation between all projects and create a collector audience aligned with these ventures.”
- Francisco Cordero-Oceguera (Selection committee member and director of Lodos Gallery)
This platform consolidates itself as a space of resistance and renewal, where contemporary artistic practices serve as vehicles to examine questions of identity, territory, memory, and future, weaving a multifaceted dialogue between the local and the global. Let’s dive into some of the projects that can be seen at the fair!!!
LODOS
CDMX, Mexico







In today’s art landscape, Lodos Gallery emerges as a territory of experimentation where the boundaries between creation, critical thinking, and social action blur. Their proposal is not limited to exhibition, but expands as a device for knowledge production. Each project functions as an ecosystem of ideas, where artists are provocateurs of alternative realities. The gallery operates as a laboratory where works are not passive objects, but machines for generating questions, destabilizing certainties, and mapping possibilities.
Lodos will present a selection of works by artists from the gallery’s program. With Sofía Berakha, Samuel Guerrero @sistema_8 , Adriana Lara, Emanuele Marcuccio @em2062, Ryan Nault @drexpwy,Berenice Olmedo @berenice.olmedo Gerardo Rocha @_rejectmodernity, Ramón Saturnino @24.11.99.00, Mina Squalli-Houssaïni @miss_sheitana1312 .
HANNAH HOFFMAN
Los Angeles, California
















Hannah Hoffman Gallery, founded in 2013 in Los Angeles, stands out for its intergenerational program that supports feminist and conceptual artistic practices. They present a solo show by artist Luz Carabaño @luzcrbn, a Venezuelan artist based in Los Angeles. Her creative process is intuitive, transforming visual references into displaced fragments that evolve into new forms. Her handmade books are an organic extension of her pictorial practice, revealing her fascination with materiality and craftsmanship. These intimate objects are not only works in themselves but deepen her exploration of materiality, memory, and sensory transformation characteristic of her artistic work.
PASTO
Buenos Aires, Argentina






In their third participation at the fair, PASTO presents a unique collaboration between artists Santiago Licata @santiago_licata (Argentina) and Lucas Simões @lucassimoes (Brazil), whose works intertwine in a common search for symbolic synthesis. Both combine geometric elements with organic forms, but do so from profoundly different approaches. Licata uses graphite on canvas to create dense and enigmatic compositions that transport us to a celestial cosmos, full of ancestral symbols. Meanwhile, Simões’ sculptures, influenced by Concretism and Neo-Concretism, transform materials like iron and concrete into malleable forms that suggest a post-human world, where rigidity becomes fluidity. Together, they achieve an interaction between the tangible and intangible, inviting the viewer to reflect on the duality between the organic and structural, the ancestral and futuristic.
POVOS
Chicago, USA
Founded by Lucca Colombelli in 2020, Povos quickly established itself as a reference in Chicago’s contemporary art scene and made its international debut at EXPO/Frieze Chicago 2024. Since its founding, Povos has made it its mission to amplify the voices of early-career artists, focusing on unique and politically engaged narratives. Their commitment to this leads them to present a project by contemporary Puerto Rican artist Isabella Mellado @isabella.mellado , based in Chicago, known for her surrealist narratives.



The series of works she presents speak about the human condition and our struggle to understand the unattainable. The central work, a triptych titled Dance for the Lord of the Dead, is a meditation on the balance between control and surrender, inspired by a ritual performed by Mellado in a Puerto Rican forest. Through hybrid figures that fuse Caribbean Salsa and the Danse Macabre, the artist reflects on the impact of European colonialism on Caribbean culture and her own relationship with her heritage, exploring vulnerability and strength in the face of mortality.
N.A.S.A.L.
CDMX, Mexico
Artists Enrique García @xnriqu and Miguel Cinta Robles @miguelcintarobles present an exhibition that explores the complex relationships between industrialization, memory, and nature. García reflects on the destructive potential of modernity through sculptures like Untitled (Period) and Negative Epiphany #7, which combine industrial and visual elements. Cinta Robles, meanwhile, examines memory and human connections through natural materials in drawings and textile works such as Map of Plant Fibers from Oaxaca Regions, which link traditional practices with colonial history. Together, the artists generate a critical dialogue about how technological progress transforms our relationships with the environment, inviting deep reflection on loss and preservation in the modern era.


INSTITUTO DE VISIÓN
BOGOTÁ, Columbia
At Instituto de Visión, they function more as a platform that amplifies historically marginalized voices in art. Led by three women, their work focuses on conceptual practices that challenge established narratives. Their stage is international, where they seek to expand the work of artists who reveal critical realities and provoke essential questions about our world.
At Material VOL.11 we find artists Venuca Evanan @venucaevanandeperu
Gloria Sebastian Fierro @glosefica; Nohemí Pérez @noemi_perez_amador, Otto Berchem @ottoberchem, Tania Candiani @tcandiani,Camila Barreto @camilabarretohoyos_, Wilson Díaz @wilson_diaz63, Aurora Pellizzi @aurora.pellizzi, Cordelia Sánchez









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