For Art Toronto 2026, Laura García, Director of La Sala Art Gallery, presents a curatorial vision that brings Alfredo Romero and Sebastián Fund into dialogue through time, memory and imagination in Latin America. Her selection connects two distinct artistic languages: Romero’s exploration of the traces that time leaves on Mexico’s urban landscape, and Fund’s dreamlike imagery, which she places in dialogue with Mexico’s rich surrealist tradition.

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Through this curatorial approach, García invites viewers to move between collective memory and the inner world. Romero’s recovered walls and vernacular signs preserve fragments of everyday life, while Fund’s expressive figures and hybrid beings evoke identities in constant transformation. Laura García brings these practices together to explore how Latin American experience is carried through material traces, cultural symbols and imagined worlds, offering a perspective rooted in Mexico and open to broader conversations about belonging and change.