Tour guided by artist Oscar Cueto who will take us from the Jumex Museum through the Granada neighborhood visiting retail spaces that have resisted gentrification in the area. The tour includes 11 stories Of Exceptions and Miracles, told by the neighbors who own or work in the stores and who are part of families that have inhabited the neighborhood for decades. During the last few weeks Cueto has been talking with the Museum’s neighbors in search of micro-stories to be interpreted by the artist in oil paintings. As part of the exhibition *Actions at a Distance, the paintings were exhibited at the Museum and then, as an act of exchange and gratitude for the stories, they were given to their owners. On this walk we will talk about museums, their communities, gentrification and visit the stores of: Antonio, Cynthia, Francisco, Gabriel, Gabriel, Jazmín, José Antonio, Juana, Magdalena, Manuel, Martín, Miroslava and Trini to see the oil paintings exhibited in their places and meet first-hand the museum’s neighbors.

Oscar Cueto
(Mexico City, 1976) His work elaborates narrative exercise and reflects on the mechanisms that construct the notions of history, knowledge, memory, and identity. Cueto´s projects are developed flexibly in a ranging from drawing to performative installations that can be walked through, manipulated, or played with to provoke audience participation. Since 2017 Cueto has been inviting curators and artists to Austria to collaborate on this nomadic anti-museum MUME / Mexican Museum.