Mexicali Biennial

María José Crespo: Screen Memories
2025-07-19 18:00 - 2025-08-30 17:00 UTC | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
Screen Memories, a solo exhibition by María José Crespo, is an immersive, research-driven installation that explores Tijuana as a haunted city saturated with sensorial excess, systemic violence, and poetic resonance. This project proposes a counter-infrastructure through a speculative data center where ghosts, understood as social figures, lead us into fractured temporalities and hidden memory circuits. This “data center” stages a confrontation between institutional records, found archives, sensorial traces, and fictional artifacts, challenging the ways we construct and access history in a border town defined by control, surveillance, and erasure.
Screen Memories is curated by Rosela del Bosque as part of the MexiCali Biennial’s PARA/normal Borders Lab.
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