Exhibition Opening: Humid Traces

The Ford Foundation Gallery is pleased to present Humid Traces curated by Federico Pérez Villoro on view February 19 – June 20, 2026.

Please join us for the opening celebration on Thursday, February 19th, from 5 – 7pm.

Humid Traces explores the ways in which bodies of water are turned into borders in the context of rising temperatures and extreme weather events. The show brings together a group of artists from around the globe whose work addresses the tactical use of water to reinforce artificial divisions of space. In doing so, they produce evidence on the violent effects of technologies used to control migration.

The exhibition features work by Dele Adeyemo, Archivo Familiar del Río Colorado, Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Zishaan A Latif, Caio Reisewitz, Susan Schuppli, Marisa Srijunpleang, Studio Folder, and Leonel Vásquez. Through immersive installation, sound, photography, video, and data visualization, their practices offer multidisciplinary engagements with water’s material memory as a living record. They reorganize sensitive geographies of geological and human experiences, resourcing to our most intimate connections to water as an indivisible, shared mesh.

Image: Film still, Retiro, 2019. Image courtesy of the artist.