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February 20 - June 27, 2025
Un Dique is an independent curatorial project based in Ciudad Juárez that considers the urgency of creating artistic spaces in the border zones of Juárez and El Paso, with the objective of sharing and expanding these practices into public spaces. Organized by artists Octavio Castrejón and Alonso Robles, Un Dique has curated numerous exhibitions across Juárez in diverse public spaces. In this exhibition, curated by Rubin Center Assistant Curator of Practice Henry Alfonso Schulte, Un Dique makes visible their curatorial praxis while also presenting new projects in Juárez. The exhibition makes transparent the process of exhibition-making and questions the role of arts institutions in determining cultural histories and values arguing, instead, for the dynamic potential of public space as its own kind of museum.
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Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, 1998.
A visual artist who studied a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez (UACJ). He was a recipient of the FONCA Young Creators grant (2020-2021). Robles has participated in several individual and collective exhibitions in Mexico and the United States. His work serves as an aesthetic record of his experience living on the border, reflecting on various themes: family bonds, informal commerce, endemic nature, and desert landscapes. He lives and works in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
Born in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, in 1997.
Castrejón holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art Theory and Criticism from the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez (UACJ). His interest in artistic practice is connected to art education processes, the role of the spectator, and decolonial, museographic, and curatorial theories. He works as an artist and researcher in the Desierto Arte Archivo project. He co-created and organized the research project Fichero: Conectando Artistas in 2021 and coordinated Mirando Dentro in the same year. In 2020, he completed an academic mobility stay at the Faculty of Arts and Design at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) under the ECOES program.
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Supported by a generous Mellon Foundation grant, Genius Loci looks at the ways in which our local context informs artists’ practices.
For more information about the Genius Loci exhibition series and selection process, CLICK HERE.
