As part of Art Week in Mexico City, LagoAlgo presents two exhibitions that engage in dialogue with the present from different angles: Chapter VIII: Hallucinations, a duo exhibition by Trevor Paglen and Troika, and a solo exhibition by artist Rafa Esparza. Both exhibitions are free to visit.
The exhibitions start from urgent questions about how reality is constructed today: from the role of technology in everyday perception to the links between care, desire, and resistance in the face of structural violence, surveillance, and exclusion.
Technology, perception, and the invisible
Chapter VIII: Hallucinations brings together two artistic practices that investigate how technological systems mediate our way of seeing and understanding the world.
Trevor Paglen works with infrastructures that operate outside the visible realm—such as surveillance networks, satellites, and data systems—to highlight their impact on everyday life.
Troika, meanwhile, focuses on the systems we design to organize, classify, and give coherence to reality.
Their works question how these technological models simplify complex processes and shape what we consider to be true or natural. Taken together, the exhibition proposes an experience of the world as a constantly transforming network, where the human and the technological are intertwined.
Care, desire, and resistance
Rafa Esparza’s solo exhibition moves in a different direction, but dialogues with these contemporary concerns.
His work explores emotional bonds as forms of resistance in contexts of structural violence, exclusion, and surveillance. Through materials, gestures, and narratives, the exhibition presents care and desire as political and community strategies.
These two exhibitions make LagoAlgo one of the key spaces to visit, even after Art Week in Mexico City, especially if you are interested in contemporary art that is not only viewed but also thought about.
Key details:
📅 February 5 to May 31, 2026
⏰ Wednesday and Thursday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
📍 LagoAlgo
🎟️ Free admission