BETWEEN THE BODY AND BELONGING

B-LA-M Festival / ‘El Hub MX’, Ciudad de México, CDMX

2025

The German Stella Geppert and Mexican artist Francisco Diego engage in a dialogue between matter and language. Through movements, objects, and hybrid words, they explore the shifting boundary between the personal and the collective, between the loss and the search for identity. Their work emerges from the friction between languages and territories: when one tongue merges with another, a new sense of belonging arises. In that in-between space —where the body remembers and language transforms — both artists ask what it still means to inhabit without erasing what was already there. In the dialogue between Stella Geppert and Francisco Diego, a pair of embroidered socks and a wall covered in words speak about what is lost when we try to fit in. The phrases mix languages like someone searching for a place where their voice feels their own. Between what is seen and what is left unsaid, the works reveal the distance between how we are seen and how we truly feel. There is tenderness, but also fatigue: empathy appears as a fragile gesture against the habit of not looking. In that honesty, simplicity becomes depth.

B-LA-M Festival is co-organized by Laura Reséndiz, Carl Baratta, Max Presbeill, and Daniel Wiesenfeld
https://www.b-la-m.org/

B-LA-M Festival Presents ‘The Hub’: An Ephemeral Space Bringing Together Art Projects from Berlin, Los Angeles, and Mexico City. MEXICO CITY – As part of the B-LA-M Festival, ‘El Hub MX,’ an independent art and creative space curated by artists and curators, is presented through an innovative four-day intervention in a building in the city. This unique project will serve as a platform for other art spaces and collectives in Berlin, Los Angeles, and Mexico City that, due to various circumstances, are temporarily without exhibition venues.