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“The Language of the Mountain” is a project that emerges from the observation and collection of materials that invite us to imagine the ebb and flow of the processes that shape the multiple political ecologies of materials. These materials are presented as overlapping and in contact with one another, forming a rhythmic and noisy composition that establishes a formal relationship with the landscape from which they originate. Based on these relationships, the project questions notions of development and modernity when they are built upon the forest and ecological degradation of the landscape.

The project employs objects found on-site, local materials, and photographs taken in the area. In particular, the pieces *Ixtle* and *Quiote* explore two ways of understanding life and death through the maguey, a plant native to Mexico that also grows in this region. Both pieces reflect on the processes of speculation and commodification of the maguey—understood as both a material and symbolic asset—and on the way this plant is integrated into contemporary real estate markets. By placing these relationships in dialogue with the landscape, the works highlight the tensions between ecological processes, extractive economies, and transformations of the territory.

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