Mexico

This autobiographical novel describes the author's esoteric quest and involvement with a shaman in the hope of saving his mother, diagnosed with terminal cancer.

This publication reflects upon the exhibition of Stefan Brüggemann's nihilist statements read, sung, and screamed by Punk icon Iggy Pop, sculpting aurally the spaces of a seemingly empty gallery covered in densely painted black paneling paintings.

Published on the occasion of the 58th Venice Biennale and edited by Magalí Arriola, Acts of God by Pablo Vargas Lugo reflects upon faith beyond the confines of religion, and finds its traces, in different forms, in our contemporary world.

The catalogue for Francis Alÿs's first large-scale solo museum exhibition in China at the Rockbund Art Museum provides an insightful and critical look into Alÿs's practices.

A seminal text of Contemporary Mexican poetry, inspired by the Tarahumara and peyote rituals. Included in appendix is the first manifesto of infra-realism, written by Anaya in 1975.

Catalogue of Francis Alÿs' exhibition at Beirut Art Center.

The first book by Elena Reygadas, Latin America's Best Female Chef, is more than a cookbook.

This publication is the result of a collaboration between artist Jorge Méndez Blake, curator Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio and graphic designer Santiago da Silva. Gathered around a shared interest for Mexican poet José Juan Tablada, the three authors attempt to offer contemporary interpretations of the seminal themes in his work (orientalism, relation betwenn literature and architecture…).

This catalogue presents an overview of the duo's projects in the last years, unfolding a personal universe bringing forward nature as a space for political expression. It is structured through a conversation between the artists and Juan Canela, including diverse graphic material and several specific extrapolations written by critics and curators.

José de Jesús “Chucho” León Hernández is a part of Mexico City's nightlife. For over twenty years he has been photographing the city's vibrant music scene, the carryings-on at underground venues and gay clubs, the newcomers and leavers, rising stars and departing legends.

Recording of a sound performance executed in October 2016 in the exhibition space of Berlin record store Rumpsti Pumsti. Using sanding machines and a hammer, the Mexican artist destroyed one copy of each publication ever released by Tochnit Aleph label. Without an audience present, the action was documented with two dynamic microphones.

A collection of 11 poems printed on single sheets that can be used as page markers to interrupt whatever else you are reading. Each poem is based on descriptions of natural phenomena, to talk about everyday situations of human social behavior.

Catalogue of the second edition of Lulennial, a biennial organized in the small space of gallery Lulu, in Mexico City. The twenty-two artists invited by curators Chris Sharp and Andrew Berardini met around one subject matter: fruit.

A polyphonic work of creative resistance, this publication by sound and visual artist Israel Martínez reflects on the present state of Mexico and its regime of narco-politics through artistic works, interviews, notes, images, and collaborations with fellow writers, curators, activists and artists.

Mexican conceptual artist Mario García Torres examines the space of arrival as a complicated and disjointed nexus between departure, displacement, and return, in a series of works that reflect on the European migrant crisis.

Rodrigo Hernández's first larger publication depicts several paths around his sculpture Figure 1. Seven artists, curators, and writers, invited to collaborate on this publication, reflect on his artistic practice and on this particular work and conform the spine of this book. Accompanied by both recent and earlier works, these new texts offer the reader to look from different angles at his poetic oeuvre.

In (a, b, c) Ulises Carrión presents one if his early linguistic exercises in English, originally handwritten in green ink in 1972. The author observes and explores the structure of the sonnet. He develops fourteen interrelated sequences, which he uses as a key to codify a narrative. The text of each poem follows the schematic order of its title.

Facsimile of the seminal magazine created by Ulises Carrión and Cres, originally published in 1979. In this photographic book—one of very few of Carrion's entire practice—the author is very critical about his own affiliation with the mail art movement. The book presents a series a photographs of his calling card filing box, which the author juxtaposes with witty and poignant captions.

Rrr reproduces typewritten pages written by conceptual artist Ulises Carrión in 1972. In his early linguistic exercises, Carrión played with the notion of learning by sounds and poetry. By creating his own onomatopoeia and sequences of repetition, he expresses his playful attitude towards poetry.

Sur #03 takes as its starting point the connections between architectural critic Esther McCoy and the city of Mexico. This edition features issues 56 and 57 of BLESS collective lookbooks.

Reprint of a 2006 catalogue documenting the series of exhibitions and interventions curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Pedro Reyes at Casa Luis Barragán's in Mexico City (with Francis Alÿs, Daniel Buren, Gilbert & George, Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, Joseph Grigely, Rem Koolhaas, Lygia Pape, Anri Sala, Ettore Sottsass, Rikrit Tiravanija, Niele Toroni…).

An intervened facsimile of a anthropological catalogue listing the items belonging to three collections of Mexican fabrics and weaving patterns constituted during the mid-seventies.

A list of titles for exhibitions available free of charge from the artist (artist's book).

Dedicated to the long-lasting ties between Mexico and France, this survey catalogue's common thread is the foundation of a Fourierist-inspired community in Jicaltepec in the 19th century. The historical event interacts throughout the volume with the works of artists questioning the notions of travel, exile, relationships and utopia.

A photographic documentation of an installation work by Abraham Cruzvillegas as part of his “autoconstrucción” project referring to the concepts of incommunicability and intelligibility through the figures of Mexican composer Julián Carrillo and Günter Grass's fictional character Oskar Matzerath.

The genesis and documentation of a video and mapping project on the detrimental effects of foreign authorities' actions in past and present Mexico.

This publication is the closing project of a series of recent initiatives around the works of American experimental composer Conlon Nancarrow, including a pirate radio station, an art journal, a museographical essay by Mario García Torres, and an exhibition.

Sur vol. II invites a series of encounters between artists, writers, and curators working in the Middle East and in Mexico to explore the rich, relatively uncharted history linking both places, especially around the notions of utopia and exile.

When artistic gestures achieve the maximum effect through the smallest of means: the catalogue of the Lulennial, a biennial organized by Fabiola Iza and Chris Sharp at Lulu, a 9-square meter independent space in Mexico City, whose economy, “in the sense of doing a lot with a little or sometimes nothing at all,” is one of the founding principles.

An original music by Murcof which is the framework of Patrick Bernatchez's film “Lost in Time”, a sound project that is part of the explorations around Bach's “Goldberg Variations” initiated in Berlin in 2010.

Artist's book.

The Coloring Book by Dr. Lakra is the first BOM DIA Kinder book, a new series of children books made by artists.

Entitled “Studies for Player Piano,” the first issue of the contemporary art journal premised on aesthetics of encounter, specifically between the writing, art, and ideas expressed in Latin American culture in relation to discourses, philosophies, and art generated elsewhere, is dedicated to the life and work of experimental composer Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997). With Mario Garcia Torres, Mariana Castillo Deball, Carlos Sandoval, Céline Condorelli...

Artist's book based on Adrien Missika's politically engaged eponymous project that took shape during a trip along the border between Mexico and the US.

A metis art history in New Spain: an analysis of the complex dynamics of crossbreeding between some singular artistic practices invented in New Spain in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries and the European Renaissance, in the political context of the Iberian expansion in the Americas.

Artist's book.

Artist's book based on a film by Mauricio Guillén.

New monograph / artist's book (collages by the artist, texts and installations views).

Artist's book.

A lecture by Elisabeth Wetterwald on a video installation by conceptual Mexican artist, with a series of slideshow stills.

A complete survey of performance arts in Latin America and Asia today.

A mapping of the young Mexican art scene.

A mapping of the young Mexican art scene.

First monograph.

First monograph (available in English edition).

Otra de vaqueros documents the eponymous residency and exhibition project that took place in Mexico City in 2007.

A film and different documentaries on Francis Alÿs (interviews, video and multimedia projects).

An overview of the Mexican artist's multifaceted work (paper collages, large-scale spider web sculptures, computer generated projections, videos and paintings).