Opening: Alonso Cedillo at The Balcony

Alonso Cedillo (b.1988, Mexico) works across painting, sculpture, video, printmaking, and programming. His work explores how digital interactions—through social media, VR, screenshots, and leaked files—reflect the economic and social impact of the Internet. By highlighting human labor-generated data, the economic axis of the 21st century’s economics, his work connects with the Extractive Imagination(s) cycle.

For Slow Drift(s) Chapter 3, Cedillo will present The Awkward Truth, a series of videos exploring conspiracy theories in the internet age. The project examines how these narratives serve as frameworks to explain complex events, offering clarity in a chaotic world. Using documentary aesthetics, it blurs the line between entertainment and belief. For the first time in Slow Drift(s), we will expand the video art format by incorporating paintings by Cedillo, who often draws on his classical painting training to inform his digital practice with a formal awareness and pictorial approach towards glitchy and low-definition images.

Cedillo’s work has been exhibited at Donaufestival (Austria), Transitio_MX (Mexico City), and the NRML festival (Monterrey), and is part of collections like the Art Museum of Sinaloa and the Fernando García Ponce Museum. This will be his first presentation in The Netherlands.