University Museum of Contemporary Art

This guide to the University Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City follows a 2024 exhibition text by Argentine artist Ana Gallardo describing a woman she says she cared for at a shelter for elderly former sex workers, and the shelter's objection that the woman never agreed to be named. It traces how sex workers and activists responded on the museum's own glass facade and plaza, turning a dispute over consent and authorship into public protest. Stand facing Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon's sloped facade, with Rufino Tamayo's steel sculpture La Espiga on the plaza behind you.