Curators: Anne Sophie Dinant y María Inés Rodríguez en colaboración con Anne Cadenet.

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey presents a selection of major works from the collection of the CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, representative of the different stages of its history. The exhibition spans from the premises of its foundation, through the emblematic moments of its consolidation as a museum in the 1980s, to its essential role in presenting a new generation of artists and curators. Toujours symbolizes a collection in constant motion, attentive to cultural constructions as well as the spirit and ideas of its time.

The exhibition offers a non-linear review of the history of the various exhibitions that have been held at the CAPC and their impact on the construction of the collection, thus generating an amplified vision of the historical contexts and socio-political and cultural phenomena that both the museum and the artists have witnessed over time. In this way, the polysemic and non-chronological relationships that arise between the works are emphasized.

With this selection of works, the curators seek to highlight the importance of the museum in terms of the historical responsibility that comes with consolidating a collection. Each work is a witness, a vector of an idea, an opinion, and is inscribed in the history of the era in which it was created. In this way, the works can be considered to have acquired new significance today, since a collection reflects the various ways in which artists are not only witnesses but also active agents of their time.

The exhibition proposes an interpretation related to the current socio-political context and the permanence of certain historical phenomena. It also analyzes the possible relationships between language, movement, and space. Each work has its own references, and when brought together with others in a new setting, a dialogue is generated that evokes a new approach, another point of view on the history of a place (which may be the museum) or on our shared history.