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I write, research, cook, and create semi-exhibitionary formats, out of Mexico City.
NEW! (Jan 2026) I sat with ICI for a long interview on my traveling exhibition, Never Spoken Again. You can read the intervew here, or on the Bloomberg Connects App.
NEW! (Jan 2026) I Joined the faculty of the Masters in Production and Research in Visual Arts at ENPEG ‘La Esmeralda’ as Area Lead for Politics of Representation and Territorialised Bodies.
(Dec 2025) My Contribution to KADIST’s One question exhibition project is out on their email blast. The permanent link will be available on their website in early February!
(Nov 2025) Opened a new curatorial project: Tanta Piedrita Me Asfixia, a solo exhibition of the works of Aurora Noreña on heritage looting and connections between historic artifacts and contemporary craft in Mexico. Media Kit.
(Nov 2025) Speaking at three public events: Nov 14, closing session of the program Trasladar y Traducir by Bloque, @ Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City; Nov 15, AICAD Symposium @ Pratt Institute in Brooklyn; and Nov 21 @ Casa Tomada, in Mexico City, for the book launch of “Horizon.”
(Oct 2025) ICI’s 50th anniversary celebration includes a feature about some of my work and practice of the past 15 years, and my traveling exhibition, Never Spoken Again. Click here to access the ICI Stories site.
(Sep 2025) Horizon, a new book with works and texts by Pablo Rasgado, which I copiedited, is out now and will have launching events in Mexico and the US, between September and November!
(Aug 2025) In Edinburgh and Glasgow, as part of the international Momentum Delegation for the Edinburgh Art Festivals.
(Jul 2025) Announced! The American Art Book, a new revised edition of Phaidon’s classic survey, to be released in November. I had the pleasure of writing a number of artists entries for the revised version of this classic, to coincide with the 250 years of US independence.
(May 2025) I’m part One Question Exhibition, an initiative by Kadist and coordinated by Daniel Tucker. Sign up to the project’s newsletter to receive contributions by international artists and curators, and yours truly.
Out now! (Apr 2025) I wrote and advised for Vitamin V: Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art, edited by Phaidon Press. You can preview and purchase the book here.
(Mar 2025) New text on Camilo Restrepo’s work for the Pinturas Rupestres exhibition and residency series at fundacion/op. cit. in Mexico City (English | Spanish).
(Feb 2025) I wrote a text for Valentina Guerrero, as a result of my curatorial accompaniment for her project, La Anunciación, presented at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Read it here
(Jan 2025) A new text on Aurora Noreña’s installation, Parcelas Floridas, presented at Casa Wabi, in Mexico City. Click to read: (English | Spanish).
(Dec 2024) I launched the website for my research platform, Multiple Material Metonymies, reflecting on display, narration and collecting practices in the context of artistic, anthropological, scientific and study collections. It is available in Spanish at emememe.org
(Nov 2024) My critical essay on Ursula Biemann’s exhibition Devenir Tierra @ MUAC, for Momus. Read it here
(Sept. 2024) My traveling exhibition, Never Spoken Again, had a successful iteration at the Moss Art Center, in Virginia, and will continue through 2026. Contact Independent Curators International for info on how to book the show.
(August 2024) New citations / remixes of my work were published on (In)Tensiones Que Impulsan (Colombia, 2024, available in Spanish) and Object Studies (USA/Switzerland, 2024). Links and description on my publications section!
(June 2024) Daniel Tucker (UArts Philly) interviewed me about rituals and deep hanging out in my practice. Click here to read!
(March 2024) Jeronimo Duarte-Riascos (Columbia University) reflects on my 2009 public fiction collaborative project IDCT, for Discourse Journal.
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Tanta Piedrita Me Asfixia, installation View, Mexico City. Photo courtesy of Aurora Noreña
Momentum Delegation during a site visit in Glassgow.
Vitamin V: Video and the Moving Image n Contemporary Art. Released Apr 3, 2025. Photo courtesy of Phaidon Press.
Read my latest texts on exhibitions, curatorial practice and more, on my writing platform, acopyisacopyisacopy.com.
Buy or read about Latin American Artists, a book where I served as an advisor and author (October 2023, Phaidon)
Browse the website of Where You Left Off, an artist exchange and curatorial experiment I created with Tally de Orellana.
Buy the book Theorizing Heritage Through Non Violent Resistant, with my latest published chapter on art, popular culture and critical heritage.
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—David.
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