Planeta Complejo | Diversidad

Planet Compex | Diversity
Planeta Complejo | Diversidad
International Contemporary Art Festival MUSLAB

CCD – Centro de Cultura Digital
Juárez, Mexico City

group show · curated by Pedro Castillo Lara and Manolo Cocho

opening: 20 March 2026
exhibition dates: 21 March – 10 May 2026

– supported by the Government of Mexico, Ministry of Culture

Igor Štromajer: a=tf² ░ ▄ █ ▀ ▌ ̲ – ̲ –
(digital print, 2018)

Planet Complex | Diversity is an international contemporary art exhibition featuring sound, audiovisual, and photographic works that explore how local and global social processes shape cultural identity. Rather than treating identity as fixed, the exhibition approaches it as a dynamic system in constant transformation.

The project is grounded in a fundamental principle of nature: diversity is a basic condition of evolution. Wherever diversity exists, exchange, mutation, and adaptation become possible. This principle applies not only to biological systems but also to social and cultural ones. Here, the endemic and the global are not opposing forces but interdependent and complementary factors that enable evolution, resilience, and transformation, allowing systems to endure in changing environments while fostering progress and quality of life.

In a time of intense global interconnectedness, the exhibition reflects on the tension between the local and the planetary. It addresses shared patterns as well as the specific convergences of contemporary crises, environmental, social, economic, and cultural, examined through the lens of complexity science and transdisciplinary art. The project invites reflection on respect for the planet’s biological life, for other people and cultures, and on humanity’s capacity both to destroy and to preserve life and environment.

Planet Complex | Diversity brings together artists from multiple countries and contexts, creating a space where diverse perspectives challenge global norms of visual and sonic consumption. The exhibition is part of the MUSLAB Festival, an international network that promotes contemporary art as a critical tool for understanding the complexity of the present world.