The Vulnerable Observer » 1 «   takes its title from the book of the same name by Ruth Behar and refers to a practice of vulnerable looking, set in opposition to the dominant figure of the detached observer. The exhibition brings together recent works by Vir Andres Hera and unfolds as an exploration of vulnerability as a method, a position, and a way of producing knowledge. It marked the artist’s first solo exhibition in Mexico.

The presentation includes a selection of recent works from the installations Le Daftar and Misurgia Sisitlallan, combining digitized 16mm film, camcorder footage, HD video, microscopy-based images, and sound pieces developed in dialogue with technologies from the artificial intelligence laboratory of IRCAM, Centre Pompidou, among others. Across these works, multiple linguistic, temporal, and sensory regimes overlap, questioning how languages circulate through bodies, memories, and historical sedimentations.

The exhibition was accompanied by a performance program presented during the opening. The program included Rupture de langue (2022), a performance by Gwenaëlle Tatoué; 9 para los que están armados (no) es verdad que (yo) escribo (2022), a public reading of the manifesto of the Chasen Thajni project by Ulises Matamoros; and Աշխարըս մե փանջարա այրի (the world as a window) (2022), a performance by Vir Andres Hera. Together, these gestures extended the exhibition into a shared space of listening, presence, and transformation.

All images presented here are working documents produced on site. They are shared as fragile archives of process rather than final representations. Rather than documenting a finished state, they register moments of installation, rehearsal, reading, and performance, making visible the material, temporal, and relational conditions through which the exhibition took shape.