THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS

This exhibition of works from the Jumex Collection presents some of the key aspects of the museum’s program in the years to come and its particular approach to contemporary art as one that reflects artists’ desire to seek fields of agency outside the art-historical canon and the institutional-gallery framework. It will also offer the public an insight on the different approaches the museum and its curatorial program will take with regard to the collection, and how this resource can generate different curatorial formats and ways of working over the next years.

Taking free inspiration from literary sources such as Georges Perec’s Penser/Classer (To Think / To Classify) as well as artist’s museums such as Marcel Broodthaers’ Musée d’art Moderne, Département des Aigles, the works from the collection are presented in the framework of a fictional museum, organized in taxonomic divisions, orders, that simultaneously support but also interrogate this classificatory regime. These categories are reflective of the museum’s curatorial program for the coming years, one that identifies culture, the built environment, information and technology, and the relationship between art and life, as key fields of agency in contemporary art.

The exhibition includes over one hundred works from Colección Jumex by artists such as Eduardo Abaroa, Darren Almond, Miguel Calderón, Mariana Castillo Deball, Minerva Cuevas, Sam Durant, Thomas Glassford, Dan Graham, Candida Hofer, Jonathan Horowitz, Mike Kelley, Louise Lawler, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gabriel Orozco, Damián Ortega, Richard Pettibone, Laurie Simmons, Andrea Zittel among many others.

Additionally a selected number of artists have been invited to dialogue with the departments in this fictional museum, amongst them Melanie Gilligan, Coco Fusco, and the artist collectives Dexter Sinister, HCRH, and the architecture and design collaborative Pedro&Juana which has designed the exhibition display.

THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS

10.03.16 - 08.05.16