Raúl Silva: Gateway

In computing, a gateway is the point where one network hands traffic to another. Raúl Silva, born in Lima in 1991, applies the word to the Mexican Caribbean in the years when global telecom networks, carried on undersea cables, took shape just as Cancún became one of the country's main tourist destinations.

This is his first solo show in Mexico. You'll find a new video installation shown with archive material, paintings and sculptural pieces, among them La aceleración del tiempo (2026), in oil and graphite. The museum says it looks at the labour and materials behind both the cables and the tourism economy, and at how pre-Hispanic imagery collided with the 1990s look of global connection. For most chilangos Cancún means a puente flight and a hotel wristband; Silva goes looking for the cables offshore.

Entry is free with no reservation, Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 17:00, until 19:00 on Saturdays. It runs until 7 February 2027, alongside the Richard Prince retrospective and Álvaro Urbano's Helen.