Lorca's Unrealized Film Inspires Exhibition at CCA Wattis

The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco presents 'Viaje a la luna (A Trip to the Moon)', an exhibition featuring 13 artists responding to Federico García Lorca's unrealized 1929 filmscript. Lorca drafted the script during a nine-month stay in New York, but production was abandoned after his 1936 death by Spanish nationalists. The exhibition includes works by Tania Pérez Córdova, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Nina Canell, and Rosalind Nashashibi, among others. Pérez Córdova's 'Protest' (2025) references cacerolazo protests with melting metal kitchenware. Álvarez Bravo's photomontage 'Computadora I' (c. 1954) depicts farmers dwarfed by calculators, commenting on automation. Nashashibi's film 'Denim Sky' (2018–22) draws on Ursula K. Le Guin's story about time-altering narratives. Curated by Diego Villalobos, the exhibition explores parallels between Lorca's era and today, touching on censorship, authoritarianism, and technological change. Runs through October 11.