Constelaciones y derivas exhibition at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey
Constelaciones y derivas: arte de América Latina desde la colección FEMSA (“Constellations and Drifts: Latin American Art from the FEMSA Collection”) is an exhibition organized by the FEMSA Collection and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey (MARCO). From the museum’s website:
The exhibition offers a reading of the collection centered on the diverse perspectives and explorations proposed by artistic production in Latin America throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Based on a constellation-based model, the exhibition moves away from singular and linear narratives to activate connections between artworks, periods, and geographies, revealing the diversity of approaches, languages, and perspectives that shape the region’s artistic production.
Organized around five thematic axes (territories, colonial structures, identities, alchemy, abstraction, and geometrism), Constelaciones y derivas invites viewers to think about Latin American art beyond national or chronological boundaries. Each thematic core functions as a window through which it is possible to reimagine ways of traversing, inhabiting, and narrating Latin America.
Through these constellations, the exhibition addresses themes such as the fragility and contestation of geographic boundaries, the relationship between bodies and territories, the traces of colonial structures, alchemical transformations, and the richness of abstract and geometric expressions. These articulations make visible a network of relationships, tensions, and debates that artists have transformed into sensitive and critical knowledge about their surroundings.
The visual identity materializes the idea of a living archive, built from the exhibition’s curatorial constellations. It is composed of intersecting, shifting, and self-correcting layers that configure a graphic territory shaped by memory, tension, hybridity, and transformation. It becomes a visual language that opens up new narratives and readings, creating space for both what is visible and what remains to be revealed. Each constellation operates as a window into different social, historical, and cultural contexts and interests.
The graphic system is built around the notion of a space in motion, where narratives are not presented as linear sequences but as structures that continuously reconfigure themselves through overlaps, transparencies, shifts, and ruptures. This approach mirrors the exhibition’s own logic: a constellation-based structure in which multiple thematic, formal, historical, and emotional relationships emerge through different configurations.
The visual identity understands the collection as a territory under constant construction, where every artwork becomes another layer that is added to and shifts those that came before it. Its typographic, compositional, and rhythmic elements operate as strata that do not seek perfection or rigid alignment, but instead evoke the feeling of an open terrain full of new possibilities.
