PROJECT · CURATORIAL · 2024—
HorizontesMexicanos
A platform for bringing different voices from contemporary Mexican art into the territory of Tulum.
Mexico is notone visual language.
Horizontes Mexicanos began with a simple idea.
If Tulum has become an international meeting point for artists, travelers and creative communities, it should also become a place where the diversity of contemporary artistic practices developing across Mexico can be encountered.
Not as a single aesthetic.
Not as a definition of “Mexican art.”
But as different artists, regions, histories and ways of seeing arriving in the same territory.
Horizontes Mexicanos was created to make room for that encounter.
“Not one image of Mexico.Many ways of seeing it.”
WHY HORIZONTES
A different direction.
Tulum Art Club originally grew through an international network of artists.
Artists discovered Tulum through other artists. They came to paint, experiment, spend time in the territory and collaborate.
That international exchange remains part of the project.
But after years of working in Tulum, another question became increasingly important: what role could the platform play in creating greater visibility for artists working across Mexico?
Horizontes Mexicanos emerged from that question.
Not to replace the international network. To expand it. To create a stronger bridge between artists from Mexico, Tulum and the people arriving here from around the world.
MEXICO → TULUM
Different places.One meeting point.
Mexico cannot be reduced to a single artistic language.
Artists arrive with different references, techniques, histories and relationships to the places they come from.
Horizontes Mexicanos brings those differences into Tulum. The territory becomes the point of encounter.
Artists respond to walls, architecture, communities, landscape and context while maintaining their own artistic language.
The objective is not to make the work look like Tulum. It is to see what happens when the artist’s language meets it.
WHAT HAPPENS
Murals
Artists create work directly in the territory.
Residencies
Time to develop ideas, relationships and new work.
Interventions
Projects responding to particular spaces and contexts.
Encounters
Artists, audiences and collaborators meeting around the work.
Editions
Works that allow parts of the project to continue beyond the wall.
THE ARTISTS
No house style.
Horizontes Mexicanos is not interested in defining what Mexican contemporary art should look like.
The opposite is more important. Each artist arrives with their own language.
Our role is to create the conditions for that language to exist in Tulum without being absorbed into a predetermined aesthetic.
Different practices. Different regions. Different generations. Different ways of seeing. One territory temporarily connecting them.
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BEHIND THE WALL
Culture also requires production.
Public art does not appear by itself.
Walls have to be found. Permissions have to happen. Materials arrive. Artists need time, accommodation, transportation and local support.
People introduce people. Problems get solved. And eventually an idea becomes something that exists in the territory.
Tulum Art Club works in that space between artistic intention and physical reality.
Horizontes Mexicanos is as much about those relationships as it is about the finished works.
TULUM ART CLUB × ARTERY
Built through collaboration.
Horizontes Mexicanos was produced by Tulum Art Club and Artery.
Cultural infrastructure in a place like Tulum is not built by one organisation alone. It is built through networks: people who share walls, contacts, production capacity and time.
The wall is onlythe beginning.
A mural can remain for years. It can also disappear.
Buildings change. Walls are demolished. Neighborhoods transform.
What remains is not only the physical work. There are photographs. Relationships. New collaborations. Artists who return. People who discover an artist for the first time. Collectors who encounter new work. Stories that become part of the cultural memory of a place.
That is why documentation matters. And why Horizontes Mexicanos should not exist only as an event that happened once.
It should remain discoverable.
FIND THE WORK
Some of the story continues outside this page.
Selected murals and stories created through Horizontes Mexicanos can be discovered through Tulum Art Map, the public discovery layer of the Tulum Art Club ecosystem.
EXPLORE TULUM ART MAPHORIZONTES MEXICANOS
Different voices.Different places.One territory.
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