The exhibition by Chantal Peñalosa Fong, curated by Virginia Roy and presented in the Lola Álvarez Bravo Gallery from August 2, 2025 to January 4, 2026, draws from the Chinese literary genre zhiguai xiaoshuo ("records of the strange") to explore the supernatural, the imaginary, and the workings of memory.

Peñalosa reflects on Chinese migration to Mexico through both personal and collective lenses, intertwining family trauma with official narratives and xenophobic discourse. Born in northern Mexico, she approaches the border as a site of wound, fragility, and exile.

Through poetic imagery, landscapes, and floral elements, her works evoke absence, forgetting, and the hidden strangeness that inhabits those spaces. Using letters and images as omens, she constructs a narrative woven with historical and emotional time, inviting a revision of the past — but more importantly, summoning the possibility of a future encounter, whether with other times, other lives, or other species.