Frágil is a collective exhibition that reflects on fragility and how, from different perspectives, we relate to everything that is fragile, reinterpreting this concept as a quality necessary to be alive, bringing together artists from Argentina, Chile, Georgia, India, and different regions of Mexico. The exhibition, through a wide selection of artistic media including painting, sculpture, photography, video, textile techniques, installation and edible work, acts as a mirror that invites us to see our bodies as an archive of memory, change, and finitude that makes our human experience unique.

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Not long ago, the dominant narratives of the 'Global North' were nourished by daydreams about an era of “ontological security” (Dominguez Rubio, 2025), where we thought we had overcome every sign of human frailty, such as hunger, diseases, wars, climate. For years, there was debate about what name this new era of certainty and abundance should be called, some names that resonate even today are “second modernity”, “postmodernity”, etc., a world order that some indicated began at the end of the Second World War. This era of hegemonic discourses imposed on the rest of the world narratives and promises of “progress” and “abundance” for all through “development” programs designed by economists and institutions located primarily in Europe and North America. In short, a time when politicians and intellectuals could dream of a global order of peace and stability. In part, these narratives were driven by the belief that technology and science would win that last battle in the definitive conquest of the world, where finally the era of machines and data would put us beyond the reach of the rules of nature. Politicians like Ronald Reagan even proclaimed that “the Goliath of totalitarianism would be overthrown by the David of the microchip”.

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These promises have not been fulfilled as the idealists of the 20th century imagined. Like a bucket of cold water, we wake up (or maybe just the “Global North”) to the reality that we are not invincible. Climate Change, the COVID pandemic in 2020, political and social collapses, as well as our disconnection from the natural world have revealed that the dominance we think we have over nature, the mythological beings we dream of being, are nothing more than illusions.

Frágil, curated by Luis Manuel Perea, is an exhibition that brings into dialogue the quality of finitude, imperfection, and fragility of living beings in a context where it increasingly pushes us to demand more productivity, more work, more “value” from our bodies and our collective memory. It's not just an act of introspection, but an act of resistance to the culture of extraction. Our true nature has limits, it suffers wounds, heals, ages, enjoys, feels, and also ends. Fragility is a natural and necessary condition of living beings, it anchors us back to reality and the experience of being alive. The works that are part of this exhibition, featuring the artists ChicaBanquete, Fernanda Carri, Nika Koplatadze, Jashira Sandoval, Andu Franco, Gurrumata, Rodrigo Palma, Valentina Guerrero, Fernando Polidura, Anjan Sundaram, Fernanda Tellez, Sammantha Michell and Gladys Mendez, invite us to remember our human condition, and imagine living beyond the illusions of a humanity immune to the laws of nature, perfect, heir to the David of the information age.

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