In this exhibition, two Mexican artists confront the situation of environmental imbalance and the role of human beings in it. As a background narrative, Saúl Kak shares with us a foundational story of the Zoque people about Näwa-yomo and how the people were saved from a flood. Alongside him, Carlos Olvera presents canvases that are the result of his reactions to a visit to the Sumidero Canyon (ancestral Zoque land). Olvera and Kak engage in a dialogue about the meanings of that oral story through a series of drawings created together on The Flood and Survival!

This exhibition includes painting, drawings, video, and sound. Additionally, Kak and Olvera identified the book as the ideal medium for their project, an intersection of the pre-Hispanic codex format – the ancient book – and the comic or fanzine that is now favored by many graphic creators.

Carlos Olvera and Saúl Kak