'Concomitancias' – Musa México 2026

In 2026, MUSA turns its gaze back to Mexico — a country that starred in one of its earliest editions, in 2015. This return revisits that bond from a fresh perspective, drawing closer to a land of extraordinary diversity as well as the deep historical and human ties linking Mexico and the Canary Islands. In the natural sciences, convergent evolution describes how unrelated organisms develop similar solutions when faced with comparable conditions. American cacti and certain African euphorbias are a prime example. In an analogous way, the Canary Islands and Mexico — despite their profound historical and cultural differences — display striking resonances in how they have navigated colonisation, mestizaje, identity-building, and their relationship with the land. A concomitance is a deliberate or coincidental convergence of two or more factors in producing an effect. Under this premise, the exhibition traces the connections, parallels, and historical tensions between the Canary Islands and Mexico, exploring how two territories separated by the Atlantic have shared cultural and symbolic processes. The show brings together different historical periods, revealing both chance coincidences and links born of analogous contexts.