Pablo Fregoso Diaz - La región más transparente del aire

La región más

transparente

del aire.

I photograph my surroundings in Mexico City as a geological landscape in transformation. The city is built from the mountains that surround it: basalt from the Ajusco, crushed stone from the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, cement from the sierras of Hidalgo, and even marble from the Apuan Alps.

For the Nahua peoples, the urban and the natural were never separate categories: the altepetl held water, mountain, and community as a single indissoluble whole. My series tries to undo that separation, imposed under colonial rule.

I work from rooftop parking structures, among the last "public" spaces in central Mexico City where the surrounding volcanoes are still visible. The titles name the materials and where they were extracted from.

Pablo Fregoso Díaz

Génesis 1:28 «Quiero que llenen la tierra y la pongan bajo su dominio.», Valle de México, 2026

Agregados pétreos (Eje Neovolcánico), Valle de México, 2026

Basalto y andesita (Ajusco), Valle de México, 2026

Cemento (Tula, Hidalgo), Valle de México, 2026

Lorem ipsum (dolor sit amet), Valle de Mexico, 2026