NEW EVERYDAY is the concept we use to frame the context in which we currently find ourselves as a gallery. A celebration of 10 years of existing as a platform for the convergence between art and design.

A space to share the creative urgency as a tool for expression and survival alike..PUNTOYCOMA, our anniversary program, represents a personal and intimate answer from the founder, Montserrat Castañón, who has transitioned from being a gallery director and curator to also becoming a teacher. Her experience in the classroom has been profoundly transformative and has led her to think about how she wants to leave a mark on those who are about to live in a world very different from the one she faced.

It is in the latter where NEW EVERYDAY, a concept coined by Soviet artist Vladimir Tatlin, whose "new everyday" (новый быт) laid out the radical integration of aesthetics, functionality and ideology in daily life and the role of art as an agent of social change, is emphasized. Tatlin was also a teacher, for him, as for so many others in his generation, teaching was an integral part of artistic practice. Educating was a way of projecting the future. He understood that art should actively intervene in the construction of everyday life. His research into form, volume, materials and production processes broke with formalism and proposed a useful, transformative art. He was one of the first to promote a radical integration between aesthetics and function.

In this exhibition we present a selection of artists and designers who, from their particular contexts, confront the uncertainty of the present with sensitivity, depth and critical thinking. In an unpredictable world, where the boundaries between disciplines are fading, time-our scarcest resource-becomes the greatest luxury.

Polish-born, Bacalar-based designer Ania Wolowska maintains a deeply conscious relationship with materials.
Her work honors not only the physical properties of tropical woods, but also their origin, history and temporality. From a sensitive and rigorous practice, she creates pieces that celebrate permanence and lentitude. Her approach to wood is based on respect, attention and care: a practice that resists the speed of consumption and embraces the essential.

Tania Zaldívar, graphic designer, typographer and artist, develops her practice from an experimental point of view. She works iterative processes that cross the handmade with technology. Her works explore the scope of the processes she designs. On the other hand, Luisa Restrepo, designer and artist, focuses on research of materials and processes, especially with glass generating objects with a narrative of their own. Her work moves between product design and art, standing out for her technical mastery and a precise aesthetic born from simple yet well thought out processes. Both artists work independently, but share a sensitivity for process as language.
Yanira López (YaLo) is a Cuban multidisciplinary artist whose upbringing in the Caribbean and her experience as a political refugee nurture her interest in identity and memory. Her work delves into the impact of power systems and gentrification on the collective memory of the cities we inhabit.

Tenológico de Monterrey Campus Estado de México students Astridd Huerta, Hellen Castillo, Ximena Irazaba, Emiliano Sánchez, Lucía Hernández, Stephany Pacheco and Mayalen Ramírez participate in this exhibition with the project "Quality Time", a series of furniture pieces carefully designed to value the time and attention dedicated to each stage of their creation. Through design, these pieces evoke the cultural richness of Mexico, integrating both traditional and contemporary elements that reflect our identity.
They transcend functionality to become cultural manifestations.
As curator and teacher, Montserrat Castañón conceives NEW EVERYDAY as a manifesto to rethink art and design as vehicles of resistance and connection in a changing world. She presents an exhibition that invites each viewer to immerse themselves in a new everyday, to dialogue with the works, processes and ideas that converge in it, and to continue to collectively build possible futures.