Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola Releases Poetry Collection 'Templos en erupción' Through Juan Malasuerte

Mexican artist Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola has published a new poetry collection titled 'Templos en erupción' in 2025, released by the poetry imprint Juan Malasuerte. The work is described as a 'book-place' and 'book-presence' that explores intersections between cosmic dust and insect flight, weaving language with event to create spectral shadows. Hinojosa Gaxiola, born in Mexico City in 1987, is known for her performance art and editorial work. She co-founded the publishing project diSONARE with Diego Gerard Morrison, which explores materiality of ideas through publications like 'Sombras traslúcidas' by Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey), discussing Temporarily Autonomous Zones. The collection reflects her artistic practice involving performance, sound, and visual elements, as demonstrated in events like the 'Tlaxochimaco' performance gathering where she combined projected acetates, stones triggering electric guitars, and spoken word. Her work engages with ontological questions about inanimate life, language systems, and human positioning within material flows. The poetry examines themes of eternal flux, material transformation, and subtle phenomena, referencing Marcel Duchamp's concept of the 'infrathin' to describe ephemeral material experiences. The book includes a tribute to filmmaker Ricardo Nicolaievsky, exploring chance and cinematic memory. Hinojosa Gaxiola's approach treats poetry as mutable material interacting with chemical, physical, and cosmic states, continuing her exploration of ritual, freedom, and existential circulation of matter and energy.