As part of its ongoing Cara a Cara series, the Fondation Brownstone brought together Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas and Cuban artist Humberto Díaz for a powerful face-to-face encounter between two conceptual practices rooted in material experimentation and social context.

Cruzvillegas, internationally acclaimed for his theory of “autoconstrucción”—a process of building with found and repurposed materials—presented works that reflected on identity, improvisation, and urban survival. Díaz, known for his poetic interventions in space and time, engaged with fragility, transformation, and the architecture of memory, often using everyday objects and ephemeral gestures.

Together, their works created a compelling conversation around construction and deconstruction—of self, place, and meaning. Cara a Cara proposed not a confrontation but a layered dialogue between two artists who use the language of materials to examine how we inhabit and adapt to the world around us.