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).
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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.
