Mexico: Expected/Unexpected brings together works by prominent personalities from Mexico’s Contemporary Art scene such as Francis Alÿs, Melanie Smith, Gabriel Orozco, Abraham Cruzvillegas and Damián Ortega.

The exhibition is articulated around two axes: the global dynamic that feeds Contemporary Art and Contemporary Art produced in Mexico. Some of the works establish plastic approaches by a set of typological analogies between paintings, sculptures, videos and installations that evoke the idea of ​​”Mexican-ness” through certain subjects: death, the relation between city and nature, poetics crafts and uncertainties of everyday life. Other iconographic correspondences suggest contradictory notions of nationalism and communal identity.

Broadly, Mexico: Expected / Unexpected shows an image of Contemporary Mexican Art away from stereotypes, showing it as dynamic and evolving, with a multiple, complex and unpredictable image in which tradition and innovation constantly cross.

• Curatorship: Carlos Basualdo and Mónica Amor
• Artists: Eduardo Abaroa, Doug Aitken, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Francis Alÿs, Carlos Amorales, Carl Andre, John Baldessari, Lothar Baumgarten, Iñaki Bonillas, Mark Bradford, Miguel Calderón, Sophie Calle, Maurizio Cattelan, Lygia Clark, Abraham Cruzvillegas, José Damasceno, Rineke Dijkstra, Fischli & Weiss, William Eggleston, Flor Garduño, Kendel Geers, Fernanda Gomes, Jonathan Hernández, Dan Graham, Daniel Guzmán, Enrique Guzmán, Graciela Iturbide, Yishai Jusidman, Terence Koh, Helen Levitt, Phillip-Lorca Dicorcia, Jorge Macchi, Marepe, Teresa Margolles, Gordon Matta-Clark, Jorge Méndez Blake, Ana Mendieta, Jonathan Monk, Moris, Ernesto Neto, Rivan Neuenschwander,Hélio Oiticica, Gabriel Orozco, Damián Ortega, Fernando Ortega, Ricardo Rendón, Pedro Reyes, Ed Ruscha, Jack Pierson, Thomas Ruff, Maruch Santiz Gómez, Stephen Shore, Melaine Smith, Simon Starling, Thomas Struth, Tercerunquinto, Tatiana Trouvé, Pablo Vargas Lugo, Pae White, Mariana Yampolsky.
• La Maison Rouge, Paris, France from October 26, 2008 to January 18, 2009
• TEA,Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Spain from July 10, 2009 to October 12, 2009
• Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Amsterdam, Netherlands from November 7, 2009 to January 31, 2010
• BPS22, Musée d’art de la Province de Hainaut, Charleroi, Belgium from September 11, 2010 to November 28, 2010
• Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, United States from February 4, 2011 to May 14, 2011
• Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, United States from February 20, 2011 to May 15, 2011
• American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington D.C, United States from June 9, 2012 to August 12, 2012