MoCAA Acquires a Work by Cuban-Mexican Artist Laura Capote Mercadal
The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) is pleased to announce the acquisition of a photographic work by Laura Capote Mercadal (Havana, Cuba, 1991), further strengthening the museum's commitment to collecting and preserving significant voices in contemporary Latin American art.
Born in Havana and currently based in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, where she has become a naturalized Mexican citizen, Capote Mercadal has developed a photographic practice that investigates the intersections of body, landscape, and memory. Her work examines migration, territory, and political ecology through visual research that intertwines personal experience with broader historical and social processes.
Since presenting her first solo exhibitions, Fiebre de ti and Infraestructura (2012), Capote Mercadal has continued to build a consistent artistic trajectory with projects such as Dual (2015), Expolios. Entre la lucha y la lima (2019), created in collaboration with writer Enzzo Hernández, and Tramas (2024), her first solo exhibition in Mexico. In 2025, she was awarded the Artlab Prize by Galería Arte 1010 in Mérida, Yucatán. Earlier in her career, she received both the Collateral Prize and an Honorable Mention at the VII Alfredo Sarabia in Memoriam National Photography Biennial in Pinar del Río, Cuba.
The acquisition reflects MoCAA's ongoing interest in artists whose work expands contemporary photographic language while engaging critically with questions of identity, displacement, environmental transformation, and collective memory. Capote Mercadal's practice contributes to a broader dialogue on the cultural and political realities that continue to shape Latin America and its diasporas.
By incorporating this work into its permanent collection, MoCAA reaffirms its mission to support emerging and mid-career artists whose practices offer new perspectives on the contemporary experience and enrich the museum's growing collection of art from the Americas.
