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I’ve Grown Tired / I’ve Grown Hopeful: The Exhibition Mapping Latin American Futurism, Digital Intimacy, and Emotional Resistance in London
May 12, 2026
By: mesh. magazine
At a moment when contemporary art feels increasingly suspended between collapse and reinvention, I’ve Grown Tired / I’ve Grown Hopeful arrives in London as both manifesto and moodboard. Presented by CASA Festival at Brixton House, the exhibition unfolds less like a traditional group show and more like an emotional frequency — tender, fragmented, speculative, and defiantly alive.
Curated by Gabriela Román González as part of CASA’s ongoing Lines of Flight programme, the exhibition gathers artists Daniel Bernal, enorê, María Joranko, and Elena Saraceni in a constellation of works that examine what it means to exist inside contemporary instability. Through mythology, embodiment, digital materiality, gender politics, and transcultural memory, the show resists clean narratives. Instead, it lingers in contradiction.
And contradiction has never looked more seductive.
Running from May 13–22, 2026, I’ve Grown Tired / I’ve Grown Hopeful positions Latin American and diasporic perspectives at the center of a new visual language emerging across contemporary art. One rooted equally in exhaustion and desire. In grief and possibility. In the body and the algorithm.
Daniel Bernal’s Patria becomes one of the exhibition’s emotional anchors — an immersive installation where self-representation collides with socio-environmental anxiety and transnational identity. Bernal imagines speculative realities that feel eerily adjacent to our own: fractured, hyper-mediated, yet deeply intimate. The work carries the tension of migration, memory, and queer embodiment without reducing itself to any single reading.
Meanwhile, enorê — currently a Somerset House resident artist — explores the unstable border between the virtual and the tactile through 3D-printed ceramics. Their practice transforms clay into something almost post-human: soft yet machinic, ancient yet futuristic. The works feel excavated from a digital afterlife, where intimacy survives through texture and glitch.
Across the exhibition, ambiguity becomes methodology. María Joranko and Elena Saraceni contribute works that navigate contemporary life through layered emotional and visual vocabularies, creating spaces where vulnerability coexists with critique. Rather than offering answers, the exhibition invites viewers to inhabit uncertainty — to sit inside complexity without needing resolution.
The aesthetic language of I’ve Grown Tired / I’ve Grown Hopeful also mirrors a broader shift happening across fashion, art, and image culture right now: a move away from polished certainty and toward emotional atmosphere. It’s an energy that feels deeply aligned with the current visual zeitgeist — where softness becomes political, hybridity becomes survival, and world-building becomes a form of resistance.
At Brixton House, the exhibition transforms the gallery into something cinematic and porous. A place where diasporic narratives expand beyond geography and where contemporary art becomes a site for collective imagining.
Not optimism exactly. But perhaps something more radical: endurance.
Exhibition Details
I’ve Grown Tired / I’ve Grown Hopeful
May 13–22, 2026
Brixton House
Presented by CASA Festival
