Untitled, 2025
Valentina Guerrero Marín
public intervention
This intervention consists of placing mirror-effect vinyl on the curb bumps located at street corners in the historic center of Mexico City. These mirrors will reflect the sky, inviting passersby to pause and observe the clouds.
Each vinyl will be divided into eight equal parts, referencing the scientific system used to observe and measure cloud cover known as “oktas”: a method that divides the sky into eight equal sections to quantify the amount of cloud presence.
This simple gesture takes that methodology as a starting point and connects with my long-term research, which questions the implications of climate colonialism and the ways in which human beings have become geological agents, capable of transforming aerial landscapes and the very composition of clouds.
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About the Artist
Valentina Guerrero Marín (1994) is a Chilean artist based in Mexico City. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), completed the SOMA Educational Program (Mexico), and earned a Master’s degree in Arts from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Over the past years, my artistic practice has explored themes such as climate colonialism, speculative thought, environmental crisis, and hegemonic understandings of nature. I currently work with video, experimental writing, glasswork, sculpture, and drawing to create narratives that speculate on environmental destruction and the possibilities of a shared future. Specificamente my work investigates how materials and natural elements carry historical, social, and political narratives, and how these relate to personal and collective experiences.
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