Relaciones Públicas was founded in 2018 as a site-specific exhibition program and an agency for its fellow artists. It was born as a response to the curatorial necessities of the scene it belongs to and as an important catalyst in the creation of ambitious, experimental exhibitions, especially in the first years of the artists’ careers. RP is an entity that has built upon the agency of self-organization as a method for the accomplishment of independent, collaborative projects. RP depends on the support of sponsors for each one of its projects and continues to build a network of committed supporters. RP is an active participant in the changing needs of its generation, and it is known for its key curation of exhibitions.

Nations, Slavs and Tatars
Gathering, Shanghai
Regiones, Mariana Ledesma
Pies de plomo, Pilar Córdoba Longar
CONDO Mexico City
Pertinent Blackout
Lo más terrible, Josué González
Random Access Memories
Estación Material 1
Shy Cramps, Soft Guts
IUDUIUDUI, Kristin Reger
Garden of Delete, Luis Campos
¿Por dónde sale el sol?, José Eduardo Barajas


Press

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_{Nations
Slavs & Tatars
Lisboa 46, Juárez, Mexico City. 
Classroom no. 10}

English
Focusing on their capacious printed matter activity, Nations presents ephemera, limited editions, wallpaper and a new poster for the occasion of their show at Relaciones Públicas. One of the first works presented by the collective in 2006, Nations was first exhibited at the inaugural Printed Matter Art Book Fair in 2006 and subsequently collected by the Museum of Modern Art, NY. The work speaks to the collective’s belief in print as a fundamentally democratic medium, bringing together the collective’s singular ability to combine high and low, humor with geopolitics. While print is often considered downstream in the increasingly rarefied and speculated hierarchy of contemporary art, Slavs and Tatars see in print a generative medium: developing into a practice comprising sculptures, installations, public art, film, and lecture performances as well as twelve publications with MIT Press, Mousse, Hatje Cantz and König to name a few. For the exhibition at Relaciones Públicas, a Khhhhhhh leperello-style double sided poster will be printed, featuring a Spanish translation of excerpts from the collective’s book exploring the guttural phoneme, with a new poster on the backside.  

Spanish
Centrándose en su amplia actividad de materiales impresos, Nations presenta efímeros, ediciones limitadas, papel pintado y un nuevo afiche con motivo de su exposición en Relaciones Públicas. Nations, una de las primeras obras presentadas por el colectivo en 2006, se expuso por primera vez en la feria inaugural Printed Matter Art Book Fair de 2006 y posteriormente fue adquirida por el Museum of Modern Art de Nueva York. La obra habla de la creencia del colectivo en la impresión como un medio fundamentalmente democrático, reuniendo su singular habilidad para combinar lo alto y lo bajo, el humor y la geopolítica. Mientras que la impresión se considera a menudo una corriente descendente en la jerarquía cada vez más enrarecida y especulada del arte contemporáneo, Slavs and Tatars ven en la impresión un medio generativo: desarrollándose en una práctica que comprende esculturas, instalaciones, arte público, cine y conferencias, así como doce publicaciones con MIT Press, Mousse, Hatje Cantz y König, por nombrar algunos. Para la exposición en Relaciones Públicas, se imprimirá un afiche de doble cara, al estilo leporello, de Khhhhhhh, con una traducción al español de extractos del libro del colectivo que explora el fonema gutural, con un nuevo póster al reverso.
May 8 - July 5, 2025