Mexico is such a powerful cultural force for Californians as well as Guatemalans; both our families have long-standing ties to the city, so it’s always loomed large in our imaginations. Both of us also had close friends at college who hailed from Mexico’s immense capital—Rudy and I may have studied on opposite coasts, but those friends, as luck would have it, knew each other—and we’ve both been engaged with work here for over two decades. So, after years of talking about it and while sitting in a taxi one afternoon in 2018, we up and finally decided to move. Within hours we’d confirmed an available space for the gallery we wanted to open and, just as important, had an apartment to live in. ↩I’d had my eye on this building for years: a radical modernist apartment block built by the midcentury master Augusto Álvarez between 1948 and 1952, just a few years before he designed the Torre Latinoamericana, still one of the city’s most iconic landmarks.
