About the works exhibited

EROS

Directed by Anna Enger, released by CALACA Press 

Investigating the erotic as a form of self-expression, EROS invites viewers into Manuka Honey’s inner landscape. Where time is suspended and space is boundless, she meditates on the evolution of her identity as an artist and DJ, exploring her relationship to time and the inherent erotic energy that flows through her work. 

The Cenote Ring

Paola Estrella with Bon Music Vision

This project investigates the symbolism, history, and myths surrounding the underground bodies of water forming the cenote ring in Yucatan, Mexico. It addresses the complexities and tensions of belief systems and worldviews by connecting the historical significance of this geological feature, created by an asteroid impact, with contemporary societal issues such as consumerism, expansion, speed, and resource accumulation amid an ecological crisis. This project is an audiovisual collaboration with Bon Music Vision. 

About the artists

Manuka Honey

Dark, intuitive and unexpected, Manuka Honey has the innate ability to channel chaos and sensuality into her art. Spanning across multiple mediums, her practice is situated in the intersection of sexual and creative energy, balancing spirituality and the obscure.

London-based Manuka Honey—real name Marissa Malik—has taken over clubs around the world with her unique sound, which reimagines sounds from across the Latinx diaspora, including dembow, baile funk and reggaeton. Born to Mexican and Pakistani parents in Connecticut, she grew up deeply spiritual, and served as the resident astrologer at the British media platform gal-dem. She is a 2019 MA Print graduate from the Royal College of Art.  

Paola Estrella

Paola Estrella is a multimedia artist from Mexico based in London. Her work shifts across painting, video, installation, and performance, with speculative fiction serving as a core element of her practice. Through this lens, she conveys themes of intimacy, desire, and becoming. Estrella delves into the impact of new technologies on public and private spheres, examining how the imaginary shapes social conventions, identity, and our notion of reality. Her interest lies in the intricate tensions and complexities of belief systems and worldviews, as well as the intersection of imagination and perception in relation to transcendent experiences. She is a co-founder of Diasporas Now, and a 2021 MA Contemporary Art Practice graduate of the Royal College of Art. 

Bon Music Vision

Bon aka Bon Music Vision - Avant-garde artist, composer, producers comprised of Yerosha Windrich (Swiss, Indonesian, Greek) and Elfed Alexander Morris (Welsh, Ghanaian, Native Canadian) have been imprinting their sound on the UK’s experimental landscape. With a life long interest in finding fluidity in perceptual conventions, Bon’s mission is to create something from the perspective of the outsider - an insight into what it is to be and belong and how to find community in art and culture that exists on the fringes of the mainstream. They have worked on releases with Warp Records, Leiterverlag, Transgressive HQ, True Panther, and 4AD. 

CALACA Press

CALACA Press is a creative production studio and publisher based in London and Mexico City dedicated to developing interdisciplinary projects focused on Latin American creatives. They are a collaborative platform committed to cultivating creative outcomes through the exchange of culture and knowledge, establishing spaces for dialogue through design and moving image.

Through this collaborative exchange, they cultivate outcomes that stem from a practice of listening and revealing where voices, methodologies, and ideas resonate, converge, and unfold; amplifying the voices and works of Latin American artists and thinkers.