Michoacán

The boxes containing the collection of the Animist Museum of Lake Texcoco were opened in November 2017, in the city of Morelia, Michoacán. The museum’s collection comprises chunks of rock, dry plants, building rubble, objects, and tools salvaged from the lacustrine ground of the central Mexican basin, which is now dry, fragmented, populated by diverse materialities. These objects will travel from city to city in the following years, from showroom to showroom, from audience to audience. They will travel in boxes that shift while the truck hauling them drives down highways full of curves and accidents. The objects in transit move away from one another, draw near, and collide.  [...]