
Chapter V: HEAT
LagoAlgo, Mexico City
Exhibition “Heat”
with Julian Charrière, Ebecho Muslimova, Ana Montiel and Pedro Reyes.
Curated by Jérôme Sans and Cristobal Riestra.
February - June 2024
LagoAlgo presents its fifth chapter of exhibitions, titled Heat, which focuses on combustion and its multiple meanings and implications – be it ecological, social or political. Investigating forces of nature beyond our control, this exhibition cycle focuses on man-made disasters, addressing the immediacy of climate change and the threat of nuclear explosions, and amplifying urgent messages and voices. Red-hot, urgent, as if about to combust, four separate exhibitions are brought together to create a burning Ring of Fire, drawing up an unexpected constellation of international artists reunited for the first time: French Swiss Julian Charrière, Russian-born American Ebecho Muslimova, Spanish Ana Montiel and Mexican Pedro Reyes.
Each exhibition within this chapter echoes one of the four main types of combustion: slow, rapid, spontaneous and explosive. From dizzying to contemplative, Julian Charrière’s exhibition addresses the pressing dangers of a rapid combustion due to climate change, by notably exploring the delirium of industrialization and its collusion with non-renewable resources. Ebecho Muslimova and her burlesque, signature female character Fatebe takes over the walls of LagoAlgo, exploding its architecture, with walls that can barely contain her presence, like a spontaneous female combustion. In a spirit of explosive protest and outrage, Pedro Reyes’ project Artist Against the Bomb brings together hundreds of artist-designed posters, both historic and newly commissioned, which call for universal nuclear disarmament to generate imperative, urgent change and achieve peace. Meanwhile, Ana Montiel's vibrant masses perform a kind of synesthesia, painting with air the factors we often overlook—the things we don't consider. In the manner of a slow combustion, emanating like flameless heat, she reconciles the liminal and the tangible, the eternal and ephemeral, the monumental and the microscopic, the natural and the cultural.


Exhibition view Earth Listens When You Speak, Julian Charrière.
And Beneath It All Flows Liquid Fire (2019) and A Stone Dream of You (2024).
Photo credit: Alum Gálvez

Exhibition view Earth Listens When You Speak, Julian Charrière.
Controlled Burn (2022) and Stone Dream of You (2024).
Photo credit: Alum Gálvez

Exhibition view Earth Listens When You Speak, Julian Charrière.
Soothsayer (2021) and Buried Sunshines Burn (2023).
Photo credit: Alum Gálvez

Exhibition view Earth Listens When You Speak, Julian Charrière.
Julian Charrière, Vertigo, 2021.
Photo credit: Alum Gálvez

Exhibition view Earth Listens When You Speak, Julian Charrière.
Soothsayer, 2021 and Buried Sunshines Burn (2023).
Photo credit: Alum Gálvez

Exhibition view Earth Listens When You Speak, Julian Charrière.
Soothsayer, 2021.
Photo Credit: Fernanda Moreno

Exhibition view FATEBE, Ebecho Muslimova.
Photo credit: Alum Gálvez

Exhibition view FATEBE, Ebecho Muslimova.
Photo credit: Alum Gálvez

Exhibition view FATEBE, Ebecho Muslimova.
Photo credit: Alum Gálvez

Exhibition view FATEBE, Ebecho Muslimova.
Photo credit: Alum Gálvez

Exhibition view FATEBE, Ebecho Muslimova.
Photo credit: Alum Gálvez

Exhibition view FATEBE, Ebecho Muslimova.
Photo credit: Alum Gálvez

Exhibition view Artist Against the Bomb, Pedro Reyes.
Photo credit: Alum Gálvez

Exhibition view Artist Against the Bomb, Pedro Reyes.
Photo credit: Alum Gálvez

Exhibition view Artist Against the Bomb, Pedro Reyes.
Photo credit: Fernanda Moreno

Exhibition view Artist Against the Bomb, Pedro Reyes.
Photo credit: Alum Gálvez

Exhibition view Topologies of Experience: Streams. A pilgrimage Through the River of Being, Ana Montiel.
Photo credit: Alum Gálvez

Exhibition view Topologies of Experience: Streams. A pilgrimage Through the River of Being, Ana Montiel.
Photo credit: Alum Gálvez

Exhibition view Topologies of Experience: Streams. A pilgrimage Through the River of Being, Ana Montiel.
Photo credit: Alum Gálvez