September 27, 2025 to March 2026
Design, Fashion, and Architecture Program
Coordinator: José Antonio Sada Sánchez Mejorada

Project Room

Finally, Something Good challenges the narrative of dystopian stories and predictable patterns; deliberately opposing the usual methods of understanding and recognizing critical work, by proposing alternative ways of interpreting information.

In a cultural landscape where despair  is often mistaken for intellectual credibility and ideological reinforcement masquerades as critique, this exhibition withholds the affective tropes that render contemporary discourse legible to itself. Instead, it enacts an epistemic deviation: a withdrawal from the preordained theatrics of urgency, crisis, and moral grandstanding.

Empirical research—cited by Steven Pinker and corroborated by broader studies in cognitive heuristics—demonstrates that negativity accrues prestige. The critic who dismantles is seen as discerning; the one who affirms, as credulous. Aesthetic pessimism, then, is not merely a posture but a capital form, an optic through which cultural value is indexed. The historical failure of every “positive” media project only reifies this dynamic: disaffection is performative currency.