CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts is staging Viaje a la luna (A trip to the moon), an exhibition inspired by the only screenplay ever written by the renowned Spanish poet Federico García Lorca.
Curated by Diego Villalobos (Wattis Institute) and Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio (independent curator and CCA alumni, Mexico City), the exhibition will be on view from June 12 through October 11, 2025, before traveling to Centro Federico García Lorca in Granada beginning October 30.
Lorca was one of the most influential Spanish poets of the 20th century and a leading member of the artistic vanguard, pushing Surrealism to the foreground through avant-garde poetry, theater, and drawing. Viaje a la luna takes the form of an unfolding work of speculative fiction, centered around this screenplay, which started filming in Mexico in 1932, but was halted when Lorca was killed in Spain by Franco’s army.
The film was later lost in a studio fire in Mexico City, and the only traces that remain are a handful of photographs taken on set.
Bringing together historic and contemporary works and commissioned artworks by artists from around the world, the exhibition pieces together Lorca’s personal history and film script, and addresses the central question: What would the film have been like had it been fully realized?
The exhibition opening reception on Thursday, June 12, from 6 to 8 pm, will include a reading by Tania Pérez Córdova and a performance by Francesco Pedraglio.
A curatorial talk will take place on Friday, June 13, at 11 am. Spanish language tours will be offered throughout the exhibition run as well.