On Carrying: Zumbidos and the Liminial

Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin, Germany

Solo show, 2025

Increasingly, over the past few years, social media has presented us countless videos where people are asked about what is in their bags. This parasocial media phenomena can be described as an online ad-based business model for fandom communities but also as a way for people to express their story through what they carry. Holding a bag means to hold our crumpled receipts and survival gear for the day but at the same time affects and vulnerability.

On Carrying: Zumbidos and the Liminal” is an exhibition that gossips around into the sediments of these dissonances — or zumbidos (hum in Spanish) — through the lens of a lethargic voyeurism. By reframing the bag not as a passive container but as a sustained latent friction, this exhibition explores the paradigms of navigating a crisis-driven logic.