This exhibition highlights two recent acquisitions to the MCASD's permanent collection by Tijuana-based artists Julio Morales and Julio Orozco. Both artists explore the terrain of images of Mexican cinema and movie houses. Morales' three-channel video installation Caramelo loops a video sample of famed 1950s Cuban band leader Perez Prado from the 1963 Mexican film El Dengue Del Amor. Sped-up, fragmented, and then repeated, the loop captures Prado's signature yell, exploring the legacy of Latin American music through a contemporary form of visual "scratching." Orozco's series of prints entitled Salas del pasado, proyecciones en el futuro (Moviehouses of the Past, Projections of the Future) mimics the graphic style of Mexican movie posters, advertising non-existent films that comment on Mexican society through the style of horror and suspense movies while using images from defunct moviehouses in Tijuana.

