The work of Mexican artist Erick Beltrán is featured in "popular", the group exhibition curated by Pedro G. Romero at the Institut Valencià d'Art Modern. Through April 14th, 2024.

The popular is a form of imagination, often words, images and things, created in many different ways through gestures, actions and celebrations. The popular has a performative, plastic, shifting nature, always metamorphosing, closer to ritual than monument, a liturgy devoid of theology.

Beltrán presents the series "Superposition" (2021-2023), initially commissioned for 2021’s Liverpool Biennial and consisting of 30 graphic panels deconstructing cumbia music by bringing together ideas of proprioception (the body’s ability to perceive its own position in space), quantum physics, psychopomps (spirits that escort souls to the afterlife), and collective psyche. Different types of knowledge and velocities are central to this narrative, including our perception of frequency, harmonics, bodily knowledge and dream states.