Humid Traces, curated by Federico Pérez Villoro, is an exhibition at an unnamed New York venue that examines how bodies of water are weaponized as borders amid climate change and extreme weather. The show features international artists—including Dele Adeyemo, Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Zishaan A Latif, Caio Reisewitz, Susan Schuppli, Marisa Srijunpleang, Studio Folder, and Leonel Vásquez—whose works in installation, sound, photography, video, and data visualization reveal the violent effects of migration-control technologies and water's material memory.
This exhibition matters because it reframes water not as a natural divider but as a politically charged element used to enforce artificial boundaries, linking environmental crisis to human displacement. By bringing together multidisciplinary practices, Humid Traces offers a timely, urgent perspective on how rising temperatures and extreme weather exacerbate border conflicts, making visible the often-invisible technologies that control migration and reshape geographies.