Rafael Lozano-Hemmer with Eli Kezler: Unfinished Garden

Time: 7:30 pm 

Admission: with museum ticket

“Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Unfinished Garden” runs from February 11 to April 25, 2026 at Museo de Arte Moderno Mexico (MAM). For this special night, Lozano-Hemmer will collaborate with Eli Keslzer on a musical activation of the work.

This major exhibition brings together nine interactive installations that respond to the heat, voice, pulse, and movement of the audience. Lozano-Hemmer makes perceptible invisible phenomena, such as thermal energy that disperses into wandering particles; the voice converted into patterns of sound and light or turbulent digital currents fed with poems in indigenous languages ​​that were shared by their writers. In addition to the artist, twenty-one people participated in the creation of the project, which includes three previously unseen installations, as well as recent works that have been reconfigured to inhabit the MAM and engage in dialogue with its architecture, collection, and sculpture garden. The exhibition’s title points to its conceptual focus: the “unfinished,” understood more as a critical stance that rejects closure and totalization than as a deficiency. For the artist, the unfinished also represents hope.

“My works are characterized by being unfinished and out of control… They depend on participation to exist, and that can be profoundly revealing. Delegating responsibility to the public is a conceptual decision, but also a political one: an acknowledgment that meaning cannot be found without interaction,” he stated.

TONO is collaborating with the artist and museum on a special performance during the festival.