This is an important integration of human interaction with the environment, families, and species from the participating artists feminine perspective. THe Museo Amparo has a long term commitment to collecting feminine art.
Museo Amparo presents A Home to Inhabit:
Works from the FEMSA Collection
Curated by Eugenia Braniff, Paulina Bravo, and Beto Díaz Suárez, the exhibition features modern and contemporary artworks by 60 artists from Mexico and Latin America
Opening Saturday, September 26, 2026
Magali Lara, Coraza (2), 2018, Courtesy of the FEMSA Collection
Puebla, Mexico (September 25, 2026) — Museo Amparo presents A Home to Inhabit:
Works from the FEMSA Collection opening Saturday, September 26, 2026. The FEMSA Collection brings together a wide selection of modern and contemporary art from Mexico and Latin America. Through these works, it explores different eras, languages, and perspectives from the region. The collection aims to bring Latin American art to diverse audiences through exhibitions and cultural programs.
Eugenia Braniff, curator and advisor to Colección FEMSA, said, “For 50 years, we have been building not only a renowned collection, but also a living history of Latin American art, one grounded in our support of artists and our commitment to documenting how the region’s art has evolved and adapted over time. This history was always meant to be shared with the public, across different contexts and settings. The opportunity to bring a substantial selection from the FEMSA Collection to Museo Amparo allows us to further that mission, creating new points of access and pathways for audiences to engage with the richness and diversity of Latin American art.”
Ramiro Martínez, Executive Director, Museo Amparo said, “This exhibition allows our audiences the opportunity to expand their perspectives of Mexican and Latin American art, offering a unique group of both renowned and promising new artists within a curatorial framework that addresses key issues of contemporary life: the body, language, the human relationship between humans and nature, among others. To develop a link between the everyday of our visitors and art is one of our main goals towards our community and this exhibition is a significant contribution.”
A Home to Inhabit features works by 60 artists, including Francisco Toledo, Fernando Botero, and Leonora Carrington. Curated by Eugenia Braniff, Paulina Bravo, and Beto Díaz Suárez—curators of the FEMSA Collection—the exhibition presents the works in five thematic sections that explore the body, the home, memory, shared territories, and our relationship with other species.
“As we developed our 50th anniversary programming, we were particularly drawn to artworks related to territories and colonial structures, the prominent themes in A Home to Inhabit,” said Paulina Bravo, Chief Curator, Colección FEMSA. “It is a privilege to present the FEMSA Collection at Museo Amparo, whose architecturally rich and historically layered setting, shaped by centuries of colonial influence, offers a compelling context for engaging with the works. The museum’s own distinguished holdings of both pre-Hispanic art and modern and contemporary Latin American art create points of dialogue and contrast, enriching the exhibition’s exploration of place, history, and belonging.”
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“Our curatorial framework for A Home to Inhabit invites visitors to consider not solely where we live, but also how territories are constructed, contested, experienced, negotiated, and transformed,” said Beto Díaz Suárez, Curator, Colección FEMSA. “This concept begins with the body as our most immediate and intimate territory, extending outward to encompass domestic space, shared and contested territories, geographies shaped by political forces, and evolving forms of coexistence among individuals, communities, and other species.”
The lobby of Museo Amparo welcomes visitors with the piece Redasilú (Vendrá la
memoria) by Ana Hernández, an installation consisting of 68 gourd husks altered with earthen materials. Building on this, the exhibition explores the theme of language as a way of relating to the world and of organizing and understanding experience.
The section From and Toward the Body presents the body as the first territory one inhabits and the medium that allows individuals to feel, experience, and relate to the world. Featured is Coraza (2) by Magali Lara, a work that explores the relationship between the interior and the exterior, as well as the ways in which people protect themselves from their surroundings.
In the Fragments and Tensions section, territory is conceived as a space marked by power relations, conflicts, and transformations that determine who can inhabit it, traverse it, or lay claim to it. This interpretation of territory is evident in Objetos de mi jardín by Miguel Fernández de Castro, an installation that brings together objects found in the Sonoran Desert to address the tensions linked to migration, violence, and the border.
Architectures of Colonization: On the Invisibilization of Identities analyzes how colonization established a hierarchy of people, their knowledge, and their ways of understanding the world. This perspective is reflected in La Artesa que vino del mar by Aydeé Rodríguez López, whose work recovers stories and memories of Afro-Mexican communities and draws attention to identities that have overlooked or ignored throughout history.
Daily life takes center stage in Domestic Territory, a section that turns its gaze toward spaces such as kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms, and toward the home as a place where bonds and identities are forged, but where inequalities and tensions also become visible. Among the works is Mil novecientos cincuenta y cuatro by Mauricio Gattás, an installation that reconstructs a 1950s kitchen from Monterrey based on family memories and objects that belonged to his grandmother.
The relationship with nature and other species forms the basis of Inhabiting the World, a section that explores interdependence, care, and reciprocity. Among the pieces is Andromeda 7, 60 by Tomás Saraceno, whose work investigates the networks that connect different forms of life to their environment.
Throughout these sections, the exhibition brings together different generations, disciplines, and contexts through the works of 60 artists: Ana Hernández, Luis Ortiz Monasterio, Armando Morales, Vivian Suter, Magali Lara, Mónica Castillo, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Gabriel Figueroa, Francisco Toledo, Geles Cabrera, Liliana Porter, Galia Eibenschutz, Zilia Sánchez, Mauricio Gattás, José Gurvich, Ana Mercedes Hoyos, Cundo Bermúdez, Graciela Iturbide, Maruch Santíz Gómez, Santiago Cárdenas, Aristeo Jiménez, Thomas Glassford, Silvia Gruner, Armando Reverón, Carlos Alfonso, Circe Irasema, Marysole Wörner Baz, Julia Carrillo, Tomás Saraceno, Rafael Gomezbarros, Jan Hendrix, María José de la Macorra, Carlos Orozco Romero, José Lazcarro, Gerardo Murillo “Dr. Atl,” José Gamarra, Hugo Brehme, Ángel Cammen, Clorindo Testa, Leda Catunda, Aydeé Rodríguez López, Leonora Carrington, José Feher, Abraham González Pacheco, José Clemente Orozco, Ernesto Pujol, Nahum B. Zenil, Fernando Botero, Pedro Figari, Sergio Hernández, Mario Cravo Neto, Wifredo Lam, Salvador Xharicata, Fernando Allievi, Alan Sierra, Guillermo Kuitca, Torolab / Raúl Cárdenas Osuna, Felipe Mujica, Boris Viskin, and Miguel Fernández de Castro.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a public program that will expand on the exhibition’s conceptual themes through talks, artistic activations, and interdisciplinary gatherings. These activities aim to create spaces for dialogues that allow different audiences to establish new connections to the show.
The exhibition will be open through January 25, 2027, Wednesday through Monday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
About Museo Amparo
Museo Amparo is a private institution founded in memory of Amparo Rugarcía de Espinosa in 1991 by Manuel Espinosa Yglesias and his daughter Ángeles Espinosa Yglesias Rugarcía through the Amparo Foundation, with a commitment to preserving, researching, exhibiting, and promoting Mexico’s pre-Hispanic, viceregal, modern, and contemporary art.
Museo Amparo is considered one of Mexico’s most important cultural and exhibition centers. It features galleries for displaying its collection of pre-Hispanic art, one of the most significant such collections in Mexico held by a private institution. In addition to its collection of viceregal art, 19th- and 20th-century works, and contemporary art, the museum presents a permanent program of national and international temporary exhibitions, as well as a robust program of academic, artistic, educational, and recreational activities aimed at audiences of all kinds.
About the FEMSA Collection
Since 1977, the FEMSA Collection has built a benchmark collection in Mexico and Latin America. Today, as it approaches its 50th anniversary, it reaffirms its commitment to creating spaces for people, ideas, and communities to come together. Over five decades, it has been a key player in the professionalization of the arts and in collaboration with institutions both within and outside the country. Its history is linked to pioneering spaces such as the Monterrey Museum (1977-2000), where it began to establish itself publicly and where the first nuclei of its collection were formed. After the conclusion of its museum phase, the Collection took on an itinerant character, expanding its presence through collaborations with museums and organizations in various regions. This journey laid the foundations for openness, collaboration, and mobility, which continue to define the institution.
The FEMSA Collection aims to create spaces for connection, reflection, and dialogue through art. Its collection is the starting point for the development of proposals and content focused on the dissemination, research, and historicization of various artistic expressions, allowing for meaningful approaches to modern and contemporary Latin American art, fostering critical thinking, creativity, and citizen participation.
Looking to the future, it is committed to incorporating historically marginalized perspectives, strengthening dialogue with diverse audiences, and developing projects that respond to the cultural, social, and environmental challenges of our time.
About FEMSA
FEMSA is a company that generates economic and social value through companies and institutions and seeks to be the best employer and neighbor of the communities where it has a presence. It participates in the retail industry through the Proximity Americas Division, which includes OXXO, a chain of small-format stores, and other related retail formats, and Proximity Europe, which includes Valora, our European retail unit that operates convenience stores and foodvenience. In retail trade, FEMSA also participates through the Health Division, which includes pharmacies and related activities; And in Spin, which includes Spin by OXXO and Spin Premia, among other digital financial services initiatives. Coca-Cola FEMSA, the world's largest bottler of Coca-Cola products by sales volume, participates in the beverage industry. Through its Business Units, it employs more than 392 thousand employees in 18 countries. FEMSA is a member of the Dow Jones Best-in-Class World Index and the Dow Jones Best-in-Class MILA Pacific Alliance Index, both of S&P Global; FTSE4Good Emerging Index; MSCI EM Latin America ESG Leaders Index; S&P/BMV Total Mexico ESG, among other indices.
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