OTRXS MUNDXS is a group exhibition that examines and brings together the work of a diverse, multicultural group of more than forty artists working both individually and collectively in Mexico City. Through four thematic clusters (I. Capitalism and Domination, II. Seriality, Identity, and Obliteration, III. Entropy, Speculation, and Visualization, and IV. Body and Materiality), this exhibition presents recent work and special commissions that reveal urgent discourses representative of an artistic community that internalizes the paradigms and failures of late capitalism. OTRXS MUNDXS focuses on highlighting otherness: the participating works form artistic microcosms that either challenge preestablished and hegemonic conceptions or solidify alternative visions of what it means to make art in or from Mexico City.

OTRXS MUNDXS features mostly young or emerging artists—for some, this exhibition marks their first museum presentation. At the same time, it weaves these narratives together with a select group of more established artists who have been instrumental in shaping Mexico’s artistic landscape, both locally and internationally. Although this exhibition is a comprehensive survey of the current art scene, its aim is not to encompass all artistic practices or to serve as a universal exercise. In that sense, the exhibition has been curated with an awareness of its own limitations and with the intention of presenting one particular argument among many others that can be generated about contemporary art.

This exhibition is, first and foremost, a platform for art and artists; it highlights conversations that have been at the forefront of global artistic discourse and presents an important dialogue between local communities and Mexican artists with creators from Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, France, Brazil, Peru, and various cities in the United States. It also addresses the lack of representation and attention given to local communities by institutions, particularly for the city’s youngest generation of artists. OTRXS MUNDXS constitutes an unprecedented institutional response to the pandemic—a gesture that, at its best, foreshadows a post-pandemic otherness, a world in which equality, social and interspecies justice, as well as the well-being of the inhabitants of this complex city, are presented not as a radical idea but as an attainable reality.