Museo Jumex presents an installation by Mexican multimedia artist Minerva Cuevas titled, “Game Over,” currently on view through February 26. The immersive exhibition, developed by Associate Curator Marielsa Castro Vizcarra and Curatorial Assistant Adriana Kuri Alamillo, examines the nuances of urban development, ecology, and humans’ profound influence on mother earth through ironic works of art. A grand papier-mâché sculpture titled “200 mamuts, casi 25 camellos, cinco caballos (200 mammoths, almost 25 camels, five horses),” pays homage to the legendary discovery of mammoth fossils beneath construction of the Mexico City airport. Cuevas forges artistic connections between the personal, political, and economic in a group of related works on display in the museum; the artist’s No Room to Play (2019) presents a video of post-war playgrounds in Germany in which a young girl’s poetry journeys through the dark realities of climate change on the urban landscape.
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