“Traveler: you have come to the most transparent region of the air”. Thus it 's described by the multifaceted Mexican Alfonso Reyes in his book “Visión de Anáhuac, 1519”; a huge window that gives us enough tools to imagine the faraway valley.

“What have we done to it?”, we ask ourselves.

Mexico City is, in fact, many cities at the same time. It covers abysmally different panoramas, meanings and difficulties. It seems that the narrative of our city, full of failure and misery, spontaneity and improvisation, chaotic and comical, poetical and dramatic, has dragged it into the territory’s singular transformation, and into our own perceptions about her.

This city has been part of a sui géneris chronicle that motivated even André Bretón, a french writer and surrealist pioneer, to call Mexico the most surrealist place in the world, as it evades any similarity with any other city; majestic and deeply confusing.

This piece was elaborated for the “Ciudad insostenible: 20 proposals”, in 2020.