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Works of four Latin American artists based in Mexico City – Andrea Nones Kobiakov, Manuela García, Madeline Jiménez Santil, and Valentina Díaz – propose an experience of migration, translation, and other forms of displacement through the way the artists work with their materials. The embeddedness of the experience in graphite and steel, in textile, in wax and watercolor, and in sugar is what the curator of the exhibit, Gustavo A. Cruz Cerna, calls “material metonymies” – substitution strategies of meaning based on proximity; contact, or contagion, rather than resemblance – with which the works allude to a flexible understanding of the processes of geographic displacement.