RAÚL SILVA: GATEWAY

Artist Raúl Silva (Lima, 1991) presents his first solo exhibition in Mexico, as part of his ongoing research into the material and immaterial dimensions of telecommunications through a form of media archaeology. _Gateway_ — a term in computing that refers to a connection point between different networks and flows of information — serves here as a metaphor for the Mexican Caribbean as a site of technological convergence and a gateway to global infrastructures of communication and development. The exhibition focuses on a historical moment in which the consolidation of global telecommunications networks coincided with the rise of Cancún as a major tourist destination. At the intersection of submarine cable infrastructure and leisure, _Gateway_ reveals the material, territorial, and labor dimensions that sustain both communication systems and the economies of tourism — elements that often remain invisible. A video installation accompanied by archival materials, paintings, and sculptural elements, Silva explores the frictions between the pre-Hispanic imaginary and an aesthetic and ideology of global expansion and interconnection that reshaped Mexico at the end of the twentieth century.