Artista & Polimata​

Once, Montezuma kept a zoo. Jaguars, flamingos, serpents, birds nobody had names for—not pets, but a cosmos with claws, the whole Aztec universe pacing in cages. Then Spain arrived and burned it into a footnote.

Spur Projects, in partnership with Daniela Garcia Romero's AMVLETO, is pleased to present new works by Christian Poiré.

Poire doesn't illustrate this lost menagerie so much as dream it wrong on purpose—flamingos returning as survivors, geometry looping like a fever, fragments of a dead cosmology surfacing through the ornament and refusing to explain themselves. Memory never comes back clean, and Poiré knows it.