The exhibition Knowing the World with the Mouth, Without Getting Pricked by the Thorns, organized by the FEMSA Collection and presented at Casa del Lago UNAM, explores the relationship between art, the body, and the act of eating as a way of understanding and connecting with the world. Inspired by Salvador Dalí’s idea that “beauty will be edible or it will not be at all,” the show brings together 42 works by artists such as Ana Mendieta, Francis Alÿs, Remedios Varo, Chantal Peñalosa Fong and Polvo de Gallina Negra, all of whom address the body as a space of mediation between the individual and their surroundings.

Curated by Beto Díaz Suárez and Dea López, the exhibition bridges disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, politics, and biology, highlighting how food is loaded with cultural, social, and political meaning. Through installations, performances, paintings, videos, and sculptures, visitors are invited to reflect on race, class, gender, memory, and territory. The exhibition also includes works activated by the sounds of fermentation and edible sculptures resembling pre-Hispanic figures, offering a sensory experience that reimagines eating as a form of resistance, identity, and resonance with the world.

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