Celeste Melgar

Section 2, art galleries

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PARAÍSO: Latin America, Together in London

The first thing you saw when you walked into PARAÍSO was a stack of letters. The Mexican conceptual artist Felipe Ehrenberg fell in love with the British postal service while living in exile in England in the late 1960s, and made it his medium. A show of his mail art was meant to open in 2016, but was cancelled when his health failed. Ten years later it finally hung at the entrance of London's new Latin American art fair. I could not think of a better welcome.