ExhibitionMarch 6, 2026
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: "Jardín inconcluso"
The Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM) opened the nighttime exhibition “Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Jardín inconcluso” on February 11, 2026. The show will remain on view through April 25, with visiting hours from Wednesday to Saturday in the late afternoon and evening.
The exhibition brings together nine large-scale installations by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, presented across the Sala Gamboa, the circular gallery space, and the museum’s sculpture garden. Designed to be activated through audience participation, the works respond in real time to stimuli such as voice, pulse, body heat, and movement.
Featured pieces include a beacon that detects cosmic radiation, a sound walkway created from archives of the National Sound Library (Fonoteca Nacional), an installation composed of three thousand speakers, and a light environment triggered by visitors’ heartbeats. Three of the works are newly commissioned, while others have been adapted to engage with the museum’s architecture and natural surroundings.
The project is presented by Mexico’s Ministry of Culture and the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL), in collaboration with the Government of Québec and the studio Antimodular Research. The exhibition is part of the international Art Parcours series and centers on the concept of the “unfinished,” understood as an open-ended approach to meaning shaped through collective interaction.
The exhibition brings together nine large-scale installations by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, presented across the Sala Gamboa, the circular gallery space, and the museum’s sculpture garden. Designed to be activated through audience participation, the works respond in real time to stimuli such as voice, pulse, body heat, and movement.
Featured pieces include a beacon that detects cosmic radiation, a sound walkway created from archives of the National Sound Library (Fonoteca Nacional), an installation composed of three thousand speakers, and a light environment triggered by visitors’ heartbeats. Three of the works are newly commissioned, while others have been adapted to engage with the museum’s architecture and natural surroundings.
The project is presented by Mexico’s Ministry of Culture and the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL), in collaboration with the Government of Québec and the studio Antimodular Research. The exhibition is part of the international Art Parcours series and centers on the concept of the “unfinished,” understood as an open-ended approach to meaning shaped through collective interaction.
