CURATED BY ALUNA CURATORIAL COLLECTIVE featuring:Ángela Bolaños, Liene Bosquê, Carola Bravo, Consuelo Castañeda, Sebastián Elizondo, Leslie Gabaldón, Flor Godward, Muriel Hasbun, Carl Juste, Karla Kantorovich, KX2 Art, Heloisa Maia, Aurora Molina, Valeria Montag, Marta María Pérez-Bravo, Jacqueline Reis, Debora Rosental, Leticia Sánchez-Toledo, Priscila Schott, Silvana Soriano, MaiYap, Ramón Williams, Juliana Zapata, Manuel Zapata.

What rescues us when everything around us is on the verge of falling apart? What sustains us? What allows our species to endure? Among the myriad answers that art can offer, we find a guiding principle in the landmark exhibition Edward Steichen curated seventy years ago—in 1955—with photographs from sixty-eight countries: The Family of Man. In the opening lines of Carl Sandburg’s unforgettable prologue to this celebration of “the stories we all share,” dedicated “to the dignity of man,” he wrote: “The first cry of a newborn baby in Chicago or Zamboanga, in Amsterdam or Rangoon, has the same pitch and the same intensity; each one says, ‘I am! I have arrived! I belong! I am a member of the Family!’” Revisiting that foundational sense of belonging, the Aluna Curatorial Collective invited wenty-four artists to transform the first floor of the Tower Hotel with works inspired by their own families. Beyond the iconic history of familial bonds in artistic creation this exhibition reaffirms the inseparable relationship between art, life, and the care that family provides within our multicultural city.