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Projects of international and local artists with our virtual residency, Mexico residency, and gallery exhibitions.

¡ESCÁNDALO! — TBQA PRIDE 2026What if joy was not soft?¿Y si el gozo no fuera algo suave?What if loving the body became a...
22/05/2026

¡ESCÁNDALO! — TBQA PRIDE 2026

What if joy was not soft?
¿Y si el gozo no fuera algo suave?

What if loving the body became a form of refusal?
¿Y si amar el cuerpo se volviera una forma de negativa?

This iteration centers the work of Adam David Bencomo, whose practice holds the body as visible, desiring, playful, and unapologetic. In his images, joy does not arrive as decoration. It arrives as resistance—especially for bodies taught to shrink, hide, or apologize for taking up space.

Esta iteración centra el trabajo de Adam David Bencomo, cuya práctica sostiene el cuerpo como algo visible, deseante, lúdico y sin disculpa. En sus imágenes, el gozo no aparece como decoración. Aparece como resistencia—especialmente para los cuerpos que aprendieron a reducirse, ocultarse o pedir perdón por ocupar espacio.

📍Centro Cultural El Rule — CDMX
📅 Friday, June 5 / Viernes 5 de junio
🕔 5 PM — Ribbon Cutting / Corte de listón
🕕 6 PM — Performance by GEMELXS.VS + invited artists / artistas invitadxs

On view through July 3 / Exposición abierta hasta el 3 de julio
(public hours of El Rule / horarios públicos de El Rule)

Joy is not what is permitted.
El gozo no es lo permitido.

It is what refuses to disappear.
Es lo que se niega a desaparecer.

Artist / Artista:

***rJoy

¡ESCÁNDALO! — TBQA PRIDE 2026What if masculinity was never stable to begin with?¿Y si la masculinidad nunca fue algo est...
22/05/2026

¡ESCÁNDALO! — TBQA PRIDE 2026

What if masculinity was never stable to begin with?
¿Y si la masculinidad nunca fue algo estable desde el inicio?

What if it only survived through repetition?
¿Y si solo sobrevivía a través de la repetición?

This iteration centers the work of Manuel Parra, whose practice unsettles inherited ideas of masculinity through desire, contradiction, language, and embodiment. His work loosens the rigid borders around what a man is supposed to be—allowing vulnerability, multiplicity, and discomfort to occupy the same space.

Esta iteración centra el trabajo de Manuel Parra, cuya práctica desestabiliza las ideas heredadas sobre la masculinidad a través del deseo, la contradicción, el lenguaje y el cuerpo. Su obra afloja los límites rígidos de lo que se supone que debe ser un hombre—permitiendo que la vulnerabilidad, la multiplicidad y la incomodidad habiten el mismo espacio.

📍Centro Cultural El Rule — CDMX
📅 Friday, June 5 / Viernes 5 de junio
🕔 5 PM — Ribbon Cutting / Corte de listón
🕕 6 PM — Performance by GEMELXS.VS + invited artists / artistas invitadxs

On view through July 3 / Exposición abierta hasta el 3 de julio
(public hours of El Rule / horarios públicos de El Rule)

Masculinity fractures the moment it can no longer contain desire.
La masculinidad se fractura en el momento en que ya no puede contener el deseo.

And in that fracture, something more human appears.
Y en esa fractura, aparece algo más humano.

Artist / Artista:

***r ***rBodies ***rART

¡ESCÁNDALO! — TBQA PRIDE 2026What if desire was never the thing that needed hiding?¿Y si el deseo nunca fue aquello que ...
22/05/2026

¡ESCÁNDALO! — TBQA PRIDE 2026

What if desire was never the thing that needed hiding?
¿Y si el deseo nunca fue aquello que debía ocultarse?

What if shame was only the language wrapped around it?
¿Y si la vergüenza fuera solo el lenguaje que lo rodeaba?

This iteration centers the work of Juanjo Sierra, whose practice drifts between the erotic and the cosmic—where memory, fantasy, aliens, touch, and play become tools for survival and self-construction. His imagined worlds are not escapes from reality, but ways of surviving it.

Esta iteración centra el trabajo de Juanjo Sierra, cuya práctica se desplaza entre lo erótico y lo cósmico—donde la memoria, la fantasía, los alienígenas, el tacto y el juego se convierten en herramientas de supervivencia y construcción del yo. Sus mundos imaginados no son escapes de la realidad, sino maneras de atravesarla.

📍Centro Cultural El Rule — CDMX
📅 Friday, June 5 / Viernes 5 de junio
🕔 5 PM — Ribbon Cutting / Corte de listón
🕕 6 PM — Performance by GEMELXS.VS + invited artists / artistas invitadxs

On view through July 3 / Exposición abierta hasta el 3 de julio
(public hours of El Rule / horarios públicos de El Rule)

Desire keeps returning.
El deseo siempre vuelve.

Not as sin.
No como pecado.

But as proof that another world can still be imagined.
Sino como prueba de que otro mundo todavía puede imaginarse.

Artist / Artista: .art

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¡ESCÁNDALO! — TBQA PRIDE 2026What if identity was never fixed?¿Y si la identidad nunca fue fija?What if the images that ...
21/05/2026

¡ESCÁNDALO! — TBQA PRIDE 2026

What if identity was never fixed?
¿Y si la identidad nunca fue fija?

What if the images that shaped you could also be dismantled?
¿Y si las imágenes que te moldearon también pudieran desmontarse?

This iteration centers the work of Ivan Barrera, whose practice moves through advertising, pop aesthetics, migration, and fractured belonging—turning inherited systems back onto themselves until their authority begins to collapse.

Esta iteración centra el trabajo de Iván Barrera, cuya práctica atraviesa la publicidad, la cultura pop, la migración y la pertenencia fracturada—haciendo que los sistemas heredados se vuelvan contra sí mismos hasta que su autoridad comienza a derrumbarse.

📍Centro Cultural El Rule — CDMX
📅 Friday, June 5 / Viernes 5 de junio
🕔 5 PM — Ribbon Cutting / Corte de listón
🕕 6 PM — Performance by GEMELXS.VS + invited artists / artistas invitadxs

On view through July 3 / Exposición abierta hasta el 3 de julio
(public hours of El Rule / horarios públicos de El Rule)

The dismantling is not destruction.
El desmontaje no es destrucción.

It is the moment the image stops deciding who you are.
Es el momento en que la imagen deja de decidir quién eres.

Artist / Artista:

***rArt ***r

¡ESCÁNDALO! — TBQA PRIDE 2026Not every break is loud.Some things shift slowly—until you realize you were never alone ins...
21/05/2026

¡ESCÁNDALO! — TBQA PRIDE 2026

Not every break is loud.
Some things shift slowly—until you realize you were never alone inside them.

This iteration centers Anastasia Shik, whose work resists the idea of a singular rupture. Instead, it moves through the everyday—through family, through time, through the quiet responsibility of being with others. What emerges is not a personal story alone, but a shared condition: fragile, complex, and held together in the act of living.

Opening at Centro Cultural El Rule, in the center of CDMX—where bodies, histories, and encounters refuse containment.

Friday, June 5
5 PM — Ribbon Cutting
6 PM — Performance by GEMELXS.VS + invited artists

On view through July 3 (public hours of El Rule)

Featuring artists:
Caitlin Gill (Baltimore, MD), Manuel Parra (CDMX), Tom Hill (Washington, DC), John Paradiso (Washington, DC), Miguel Casco (CDMX), Michael F. Gallagher (Chicago, IL), Jennifer Mitchell (Los Angeles, CA), Iván Barrera (CDMX), Daruich Hilal (São Paulo, BR), Stiofan O’Ceallaigh (London, UK), Javier O’Campo (Cuernavaca, MX), Grito Viejito (LA / Berlin), Leah Cupino (Helena, MT), Frank Mullaney (New York, NY), Rodolfo Pérez (San Francisco, CA), Adam David Bencomo (Baltimore, MD), Libia Rocha (CDMX), Anastasia Shik (Milan, IT), Nelson Morales (Oaxaca, MX), Francisco Solís (CDMX), Felix d’Eon (CDMX), Evan Schwartz (New York, NY), Jaimes Mayhew (Burlington, VT), Lou Grande (Kansas City, KS), Juanjo Sierra (Mérida, MX), Leslie Molina (Caracas, VE), Azul Nogueron (Chicago, IL), Brian Guzmán (CDMX), GEMELXS.VS (CDMX), Cortney Mansanarez (San Diego, CA), Sarah Siegel (Chicago, IL), Eddie Milla (San Francisco, CA), Serena Brito (Los Angeles, CA), Mason Weiss (Berlin, DE), Joan Cox (Baltimore, MD), Rohn Meijer (Milan, IT), Michael Perry (Raleigh, NC), Steven Baboun (Port-au-Prince, HT), Richard Sawdon Smith (Newcastle, UK), Micheal Swank (CDMX), Evgenia Berestneva (Moscow, RU), Shendra Stucki (CDMX), Alex Cabrera (Puebla, MX), Eva Mueller (New York, NY)

This is not just your story.
It is the moment you recognize yourself in someone else.

Artist: .photos

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¡ESCÁNDALO! — TBQA PRIDE 2026¿Y si la masculinidad no fuera algo fijo?What if masculinity was never fixed?¿Y si fuera al...
21/05/2026

¡ESCÁNDALO! — TBQA PRIDE 2026

¿Y si la masculinidad no fuera algo fijo?
What if masculinity was never fixed?

¿Y si fuera algo aprendido—y por lo tanto, algo que también puede transformarse?
What if it was something learned—and therefore something that could be transformed?

Esta iteración confronta la masculinidad como estructura: una serie de gestos repetidos, heredados y vigilados. Pero dentro de esa rigidez también existe otra posibilidad—la vulnerabilidad, el afecto y la cercanía como formas de resistencia frente al control.

This iteration confronts masculinity as structure: a set of repeated gestures inherited and enforced over time. But inside that rigidity exists another possibility—vulnerability, tenderness, and intimacy as forms of resistance against control.

📍Centro Cultural El Rule — CDMX
📅 Viernes 5 de junio / Friday, June 5
🕔 5 PM — Corte de listón / Ribbon Cutting
🕕 6 PM — Performance por GEMELXS.VS + artistas invitadxs / invited artists

Exposición abierta hasta el 3 de julio / On view through July 3
(horarios públicos de El Rule / public hours of El Rule)

La masculinidad no es lo que se hereda.
Masculinity is not what is inherited.

Es lo que permitimos transformar.
It is what we allow to transform.

Artista:

***rMasculinity ***r

¡ESCÁNDALO! — TBQA PRIDE 2026The image doesn’t disappear.It turns.This iteration centers the work of Iván Barrera, where...
20/05/2026

¡ESCÁNDALO! — TBQA PRIDE 2026

The image doesn’t disappear.
It turns.

This iteration centers the work of Iván Barrera, where advertising, pop, and inherited visual systems are not rejected—but dismantled from within. What once constructed the body begins to fracture under its own repetition.

Opening at Centro Cultural El Rule, in the center of CDMX—where bodies, histories, and encounters refuse containment.

Friday, June 5
5 PM — Ribbon Cutting
6 PM — Performance by GEMELXS.VS + invited artists

On view through July 3 (public hours of El Rule)

Featuring artists:
Caitlin Gill (Baltimore, MD), Manuel Parra (CDMX), Tom Hill (Washington, DC), John Paradiso (Washington, DC), Miguel Casco (CDMX), Michael F. Gallagher (Chicago, IL), Jennifer Mitchell (Los Angeles, CA), Iván Barrera (CDMX), Daruich Hilal (São Paulo, BR), Stiofan O’Ceallaigh (London, UK), Javier O’Campo (Cuernavaca, MX), Grito Viejito (LA / Berlin), Leah Cupino (Helena, MT), Frank Mullaney (New York, NY), Rodolfo Pérez (San Francisco, CA), Adam David Bencomo (Baltimore, MD), Libia Rocha (CDMX), Anastasia Shik (Milan, IT), Nelson Morales (Oaxaca, MX), Francisco Solís (CDMX), Felix d’Eon (CDMX), Evan Schwartz (New York, NY), Jaimes Mayhew (Burlington, VT), Lou Grande (Kansas City, KS), Juanjo Sierra (Mérida, MX), Leslie Molina (Caracas, VE), Azul Nogueron (Chicago, IL), Brian Guzmán (CDMX), GEMELXS.VS (CDMX), Cortney Mansanarez (San Diego, CA), Sarah Siegel (Chicago, IL), Eddie Milla (San Francisco, CA), Serena Brito (Los Angeles, CA), Mason Weiss (Berlin, DE), Joan Cox (Baltimore, MD), Rohn Meijer (Milan, IT), Michael Perry (Raleigh, NC), Steven Baboun (Port-au-Prince, HT), Richard Sawdon Smith (Newcastle, UK), Micheal Swank (CDMX), Evgenia Berestneva (Moscow, RU), Shendra Stucki (CDMX), Alex Cabrera (Puebla, MX), Eva Mueller (New York, NY)

This is not a fixed image.
It is the moment it stops holding you in place.

Artist:

***rArt



¡ESCÁNDALO! — TBQA PRIDE 2026A rupture in distance.A body seen without permission to disappear.Opening at Centro Cultura...
19/05/2026

¡ESCÁNDALO! — TBQA PRIDE 2026

A rupture in distance.
A body seen without permission to disappear.

Opening at Centro Cultural El Rule, in the center of CDMX—where bodies, histories, and encounters refuse containment.

Friday, June 5
5 PM — Ribbon Cutting
6 PM — Performance by Gemelxs.VS + invited artists

On view through July 3 (public hours of El Rule)

Featuring artists:
Caitlin Gill (Baltimore, MD), Manuel Parra (CDMX), Tom Hill (Washington, DC), John Paradiso (Washington, DC), Miguel Casco (CDMX), Michael F. Gallagher (Chicago, IL), Jennifer Mitchell (Los Angeles, CA), Iván Barrera (CDMX), Daruich Hilal (São Paulo, BR), Stiofan O’Ceallaigh (London, UK), Javier O’Campo (Cuernavaca, MX), Grito Viejito (LA / Berlin), Leah Cupino (Helena, MT), Frank Mullaney (New York, NY), Rodolfo Pérez (San Francisco, CA), Adam David Bencomo (Baltimore, MD), Libia Rocha (CDMX), Anastasia Shik (Milan, IT), Nelson Morales (Oaxaca, MX), Francisco Solís (CDMX), Felix d’Eon (CDMX), Evan Schwartz (New York, NY), Jaimes Mayhew (Burlington, VT), Lou Grande (Kansas City, KS), Juanjo Sierra (Mérida, MX), Leslie Molina (Caracas, VE), Azul Nogueron (Chicago, IL), Brian Guzmán (CDMX), GEMELXS.VS (CDMX), Cortney Mansanarez (San Diego, CA), Sarah Siegel (Chicago, IL), Eddie Milla (San Francisco, CA), Serena Brito (Los Angeles, CA), Mason Weiss (Berlin, DE), Joan Cox (Baltimore, MD), Rohn Meijer (Milan, IT), Michael Perry (Raleigh, NC), Steven Baboun (Port-au-Prince, HT), Richard Sawdon Smith (Newcastle, UK), Micheal Swank (CDMX), Evgenia Berestneva (Moscow, RU), Shendra Stucki (CDMX), Alex Cabrera (Puebla, MX), Eva Mueller (New York, NY)

This is not a spectacle to observe.
It is a space where something gives way—
And you find yourself inside it.

Artist

***rArt



For the post, keep it close to the body of the work. Not selling access, but naming what access actually does:There’s a ...
08/05/2026

For the post, keep it close to the body of the work. Not selling access, but naming what access actually does:

There’s a difference between making work alone and letting it be met.

COLLECTIVO is THE space.

Each month, we hold a critique session through InResidency—an intentional room where artists bring work into focus. Not for approval. Not for performance. For clarity.

You can enter that room in two ways:
You show up to look, to respond, to sharpen how you speak about work that isn’t yours.
Or you place your own work inside it—and let it be read.

Not every piece is ready for that. Not every moment is.

We select artists for critique based on where the work is and how it’s being held. The goal isn’t to cycle through as many voices as possible. The goal is to make the time matter.

This is part of what COLLECTIVO supports:
A structure where your work doesn’t disappear into the scroll.
A space where it can be questioned, pushed, and clarified.

If you’ve been working in isolation, you already know what’s missing.

Join COLLECTIVO. Links in Bio or BureauQ***rArt.com

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Sino de reconocer la tuya dentro de ellas.m. lives—it’s about recognizing your own within them.Esta exposición no trata ...
07/05/2026

Sino de reconocer la tuya dentro de ellas.m. lives—
it’s about recognizing your own within them.

Esta exposición no trata de observar vidas Q***r—
sino de reconocer la tuya dentro de ellas.

We are taught to look at difference as distance.
To stand outside. To categorize.

These works come from Q***r experience. They are specific. They are living.
A quedarnos afuera. A clasificar.

¡Escándalo! asks something else.

Don’t look for what makes this work different from you.
Look for where it touches your own life.

¡Escándalo! pide otra cosa.

No busques lo que te separa de la obra.
Busca dónde te toca.

These works come from Q***r experience. They are specific. They are lived.
But they do not end there.

Las obras parten de experiencias Q***r. Son específicas. Son vividas.
Pero no terminan ahí.

They open.
They wait for you to enter.

Se abren.
Esperan que entres.

That moment—when you stop looking at the work and find yourself inside it—

Ese momento—cuando dejas de mirar la obra y te encuentras dentro de ella—

That is the escándalo.

Ese es el escándalo.

***r ***r ***r

We are taught to see each other as different—to label, to separate, to keep distance.Se nos enseña a vernos como diferen...
06/05/2026

We are taught to see each other as different—to label, to separate, to keep distance.
Se nos enseña a vernos como diferentes—a etiquetar, a separar, a mantener distancia.

¡Escándalo! breaks that.
¡Escándalo! rompe eso.

The works in this exhibition come from Q***r lives. They come from the artists’ own experiences. But they are not only for Q***r people.
Las obras en esta exposición provienen de vidas Q***r. Surgen de las experiencias propias de lxs artistas. Pero no son solo para personas Q***r.

You do not need to identify as Q***r to be here. You only need to look—and recognize something of your own life in what you see.
No necesitas identificarte como Q***r para estar aquí. Solo necesitas mirar—y reconocer algo de tu propia vida en lo que ves.

These artists work from vulnerability. They put their lives into the work without explaining them. Not to be compared. Not to be categorized. But to be encountered.
Lxs artistas trabajan desde la vulnerabilidad. Ponen sus vidas en la obra sin explicarlas. No para ser comparadas. No para ser categorizadas. Sino para ser encontradas.

At some point, you may see yourself in what is in front of you.
En algún momento, podrías verte a ti mismx en lo que tienes enfrente.

That is the escándalo.
Ese es el escándalo.

Not that we are different—
but that we were taught to believe we are separate.
No que seamos diferentes—
sino que se nos enseñó a creer que estamos separadxs.

Dedicated to Collectivo member , recently lost to cancer.
Sales of his work support his hospital bills.

Inauguración
Centro Cultural El Rule
5 Jun, 16:00–20:00
Corte de listón 17:00 + .VS actuación 18:00

Exposición
5 Jun – 3 Jul

Ubicación
Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas 6, 1er piso
Centro Histórico, CDMX

Horarios
Mar–Dom, 10:00–18:00
Lun cerrado

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Dirección

Calle Lisboa 46, Colonia Juarez
Mexico City
06600

Teléfono

+527774483923

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