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For Jorge Méndez Blake poetry is in danger.

It faces various threats: climate change, the current sanitary crisis, economic catastrophe, and socio-political indifference, as well as the constant violence of our postcapitalist societies. Once again, we seem to be witnesses of the suitable action of sending poetry to the bottom list of proprieties, simply because there are other matters that require our attention.

That is exactly why it must be defended.

In this new solo exhibition, Méndez Blake introduces the idea of (M)ars poética, following the classical term of Ars poetica by Horace, …