As part of the celebration of its 50th anniversary, the FEMSA Collection presents Constelaciones y derivas: arte de América Latina desde la colección FEMSA at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey. The exhibition offers a reading of the collection centered on the diverse perspectives and explorations proposed by artistic production in Latin America throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Based on a constellation-based model, the exhibition moves away from singular and linear narratives to activate connections between artworks, periods, and geographies, revealing the diversity of approaches, languages, and perspectives that shape the region’s artistic production.

Organized around five thematic axes (territories, colonial structures, identities, alchemy, abstraction, and geometrism), Constelaciones y derivas invites viewers to think about Latin American art beyond national or chronological boundaries. Each thematic core functions as a window through which it is possible to reimagine ways of traversing, inhabiting, and narrating Latin America.

Through these constellations, the exhibition addresses themes such as the fragility and contestation of geographic boundaries, the relationship between bodies and territories, the traces of colonial structures, alchemical transformations, and the richness of abstract and geometric expressions. These articulations make visible a network of relationships, tensions, and debates that artists have transformed into sensitive and critical knowledge about their surroundings.