As part of Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Pablo Helguera reprises and adds to a 1969 lecture series On the Future of Art, pondering the effects of place and time on ideas about art.

Speech read by Pablo Helguera at the Renata Bianconi Gallery in Milano on February 28, 2013, to launch the project Vita Vel Regula.

(video, black and white, 15 min., 2008) Chipilo is a documentary based on the story of a town of the same name, located in the vicinity of the city of Puebla, Mexico. Toward the last quarter of the XIXth century, the government of Porfirio Díaz sought to populate some areas of Mexican land with European immigrants, with the hopes that these groups would enrich the culture and the economy of the region. Amongst these groups were a community of northern italians that spoke Veneto and agreed to settle in these new lands. The unusual geographic, social and political circumstances of this arrangement resulted in the italian settlers to remain in isolation without much other choice. To this day, most of the population of Chipilo speak the original Véneto dialect. Chipilo documents, in the original language, the story of this community that resulted from a utopian social experiment in XIXth Century Mexico.