The Flower and the Flame is a collaborative exhibition between Leslie Moody Castro, Fabiola Torres-Alzaga, and Omar Barquet. Sala Diaz will be transformed into a space where the story of a mythical being held together by a flower in one hand and a flame in the other comes to life. This exhibition uses cinema, Greek myth, the poet Sappho, and the tragedy and grief in relationships to tell its story. 

Fabiola Torres-Alzaga lives and works in Mexico City and is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores visual geographies in their various fields of representation and their repercussions on our socio-spatial relationships, with a special emphasis on manifestations of the invisible. From a perspective of sexual dissidence, her works take as their starting point scenic systems such as cinema, theater, and magic, analyzing the complex visual hierarchies that are established between the viewer and the narratives that make up the image.

Her work has been shown at Museo Cabañas (Guadalajara, 2025), MUAC (Mexico City, 2024), Haus der Kulturen del Welt (Berlin, 2024), MACRO Museum (Rome, 2023), Villa Medicis (Rome, 2022), Sala 10 at MUAC (Mexico, 2021), FEMSA Biennial (Zacatecas, 2018), Anthology Film Archives (New York, 2018), Lille3000 (France, 2019), Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (Buenos Aires, 2018), Paul Kasmin Gallery (New York, 2018), Maison des Arts de Malakoff (France, 2016), Moscow Polytechnic Museum (Russia, 2015), MARCO (Monterrey, 2015), Museo del Chopo (Mexico City, 2014), Museum of Modern Art (Mexico City, 2014), Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico City, 2011), Center for Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv, 2006), Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, (Mexico, 2004), among others. 

She has published The indiscreet frame (Impronta, 2025), The Uninvited (MUAC, UNAM, 2025) Historias de la noche (ESPAC, 2019), a book/project in dialogue with Mara Fortes, and Fabiola Torres-Alzaga: entre actos (Museo Universitario del Chopo, 2015) with texts by Itala Schmelz and Daniel Garza Usabiaga. She has twice been awarded with Jóvenes Creadores Grant, and from 2020 to 2023 she has been a member of the FONCA´s National System of Creators.

Omar Barquet was born in 1979 in Chetumal, México, and he holds a degree in Fine Arts from "La Esmeralda", the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking in Mexico City, where he has lived and worked since 2000. Barquet has received numerous awards including the Young Artists Fellowship from FONCA and the MACG - Bancomer Arte Actual Grant. He has been invited to various artist-in-residency programs, including CAPACETE in Rio de Janeiro; Casa Tomada in São Paulo; MAAS, New York City; Fountainhead, Miami; Tupac, Lima; Vestfossen in Norway; and Kiosko in Bolivia, among others.  Barquet has shown extensively both nationally and internationally with solo shows at the Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Mérida; the Kunsthalle, São Paulo; the Christinger de Mayo Gallery, Zürich, and Zilberman Gallery in Berlin, amongst others.

Omar often collaborates with other artists and creatives and early in his career he founded the Segundo Piso Art Collective with Jose Luis Landét, Agustín González and Moris. He also cofounded Grama Ruina, a musical trio for sound experimentation with composer Fernando Soberanes and musician Javier Loyola.

His works are included in numerous private and public collections including : The Jumex Collection, FEMSA Collection, ESPAC Collection, Jorge Pérez Collection, Sackner Collection, New Collection, JoAnn G. Hickey Collection, COPRO Collection, Related Group Collection, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Museo de Arte de Sonora, Museo Palacio de Medicina and Phoenix Museum of Art.

Omar Barquet is currently represented by ZO Contemporary, Monterrey, Mexico; Arróniz Gallery, Mexico City; Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul, Berlin, and Miami; and Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York City.

Leslie Moody Castro is an independent curator and writer whose practice is based on itinerancy and collaboration. She has produced, organized, and collaborated on projects in Mexico and the United States for nearly two decades. She is committed to creating moments of exchange and dialogue within exhibitions, is a co-founder of Unlisted Projects Residency, and Co-Lab Projects, and in 2022 served as inaugural curatorial fellow and curator in residence at New Mexico State University and Casa Otro Residency, respectively. She has been awarded two grants from the National Endowment of the Arts for her curatorial projects and a fellowship from the Department of State for her research on borders. Moody Castro has participated in numerous residencies including the Narva Artist Residency, Estonia, The Galveston Artist Residency, Casa Lü Residency, Tepoztlán, MARSO CDMX, and Fountainhead, Miami. She has curated biennials including the Amarillo Museum of Art Biennial in 2021, The Texas Biennial in 2018, and co-curator of the Aurora Biennial in 2024.  Moody Castro was guest editor of Glasstire Magazine from 2021—2024, is the founder of AtravesArte and believes Mariachis makes everything better.