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The Rojonegro collective will represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale.
The RojoNegro collective, made up of María Sosa and Noé Martínez, has been selected to represent Mexico at the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, which will take place from May 9 to November 22, 2026. The participants are gradually becoming known and after a careful process of analysis and deliberation, the council chose RojoNegro's proposal, titled Invisible Acts to Sustain the Universe and curated by Jessica Berlanga Taylor, for its solid conceptual framework and its ability to articulate sensitive, situated and critical visions.
Throughout its various editions, the Venice Art Biennale has adopted various methods to select the project that represents Mexico. For this occasion, a curatorial process was chosen, in which INBAL convened an advisory board comprised of Jessica Berlanga Taylor, Manuela Moscoso, and Osvaldo Sánchez. This board was tasked with analyzing and evaluating various artistic profiles, with the goal of identifying a solid and representative proposal for Mexico's participation in the Biennale.
The choice of Invisible Acts to Sustain the Universe by RojoNegro is explained by its approach to “urgent issues such as ancestral memory, epistemic justice, decolonization, and relational ecology, from a practice that works with indigenous, Afro-descendant, and peasant cosmogonies, not as external references, but as living matrices of thought that organize their forms of creation, connection, and imagination.”
The Mexican pavilion will present this work in a hybrid format that combines installation, performance, and sound. Made with organic materials, the proposal is distinguished by its ability to articulate sensitive, situated, and critical visions.
RojoNegro is a duo formed by María Sosa and Noé Martínez, whose artistic practice combines ancestral memory, body languages, and ritual technologies from a decolonial perspective. Through installation, performance, sound, and organic materials, their work generates situated forms of knowledge that question the processes of colonization and their lasting effects on contemporary bodies, territories, and worldviews.
The theme of the 61st Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition is In Minor Keys , conceived by the Biennale's curatorial team based on the proposal of the recently deceased curator Koyo Kouoh. The exhibition is presented as a collective score, developed with artists who have created imaginative universes, exploring the limits of form. Their practices function as complex melodies, which can be appreciated both collectively and individually, and whose works integrate organically with society.
