Libertad Alcántara: Ahí viene el Coco / Here Comes the Boogeyman
On View 20 November – 27 December 2025
Opening Reception 5pm – 7pm
DON’T LOOK Projects is pleased to present Ahí viene el Coco—an exhibition that invokes the metaphorical boogeyman, to critically examine the systemic violence of contemporary global polarization and the resulting monocultural, beige aesthetic of manufactured consensus. The exhibition asserts that the current retreat from inclusivity to apartheid is a psychological defense mechanism against the visible failure of prevailing economic models, which has led to the shattering of the meritocratic illusion.
The solo exhibition features work by Libertad Alcántara (b. 1990, Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz), whose multidisciplinary practice is rooted in the essential notion of the personal as a political gesture. Libertad Alcántara interrogates this phenomenon, confronting the numbing impulses and inertia that keep reality at bay, instead expanding the field of view to embrace contradictions as a prerequisite for genuine structural change.
