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Other Vices (2025)
Palma, Guadalajara
Artists:
Ana Paula Santana, Andrea Ferrero, Bruno Viruete, cosa rapozo, Interspecifics, Julieta Beltrán Lazo, María José Petersen, Napoleón Aguilera, Raúl Rebolledo
We know what it means to operate from productive discomfort. That discomfort is generated by our in-between position: between analog and digital, the Y between X and Z, in the tension between established models and their necessary deviations—bionic, bisexual, bilingual (1). But productive discomfort is neither romantic nor accidental—it is a practical stance from which we can question, adapt, and effectively update modes of making and thinking in order to generate forms of relating that are not transactional by default, but grounded in reciprocity.
What happens is that some of our vices are learned. Well-known vices that tend toward individual authorship, market value, and institutional validation. But, in general, our vices are others: forms of production that breathe collectively, errors that cease to be such and become method, situating ourselves in spaces of mutual care, symbiotic and non-linear thinking. Don’t compete—make compitas.
Through the group of artists with whom we collaborate, PALMA presents itself as a project where these vices become tools. In direct dialogue with our venue—with the windows and their characteristic ironwork as the first interlocutors—this exhibition is a laboratory of shared vices. The searches, the questions, the processes are the vices we choose to cultivate together.
Accompanying the exhibition is a selection of materials from the catalogue of Printed Matter, Inc., New York, which maps critical practices from which “other vices” are proposed. The selection offers approaches that not only theorize, but also provide concrete tools for creating more sustainable futures.
(1) Lil Wayne, “Start This Shit Off Right,” Tha Carter V, 2018.