“They say it is every hour we spend awake, inside our bodies, that makes us grow older. If we could sleep 23 hours a day, it would take us 32 years to learn to walk and 300 to become adults; humanity as a whole would progress much more slowly and might eventually become extinct. Some also claim that every hour of sleep makes us an hour younger. In that case, by sleeping more than twelve hours a day, we would actually be turning back time and could use this method to achieve immortality. That is why the body, in its wisdom, lets us sleep less as we grow older: because the body wants to die one day.”

Text by Luis López Navarro. Excerpt from El Carpintero, by Ricardo Cases.

At this presentation of his new book, El Carpintero, Ricardo Cases will be joined by some of his collaborators.

Since 2010, photographer and researcher Mirjam Wirz has pursued an extensive study of cumbia and sound system cultures in Mexico, Colombia and Peru. Through travel, photography, conversations and private collections, her work explores music as a gateway to the people, places, histories and ways of life around it.

In this talk, she will present projects such as Sonidero City and Ojos Suaves, the result of several journeys with Mexican sonidero José Ortega “Morelos” and collector Carlos Icaza to trace the origins of sonidero cumbia and the networks through which records circulate across Latin America. The talk will also look at Los Cuadernos Verdes, a publishing series that explores the regions of the Colombian Caribbean connected to cumbia. It approaches music not as an isolated phenomenon, but as part of a wider fabric of landscapes, people, memories, routines and knowledge.

Mirjam Wirz is a Swiss-born photographer, artist and researcher currently based in Colombia.

This panel brings together Erika Achec, Lucas Momparler and Marcela Gómez to share their experiences working with personal archives that emerged from disasters. Drawing on the projects De aquí no nos saca nadie, L’Empremta de l’Aigua and Noticias desde el Barro, they will discuss the research, recovery, selection and editing processes behind each one.

The conversation will explore working with found and personal archives as a way of confronting grief and rebuilding a shared memory. What do we do with images that survive a disaster? How do intimate documents become collective narratives? And what responsibilities come with preserving, editing and returning these images to the people they belong to?

The panel will reflect on photography and publishing as tools for memory, repair and recognition, and on how projects like these can help preserve archives at risk of being lost, share collective experiences, and restore dignity and voice to people who have lived through disasters.

Habibi Funk is a Berlin-based record label dedicated to discovering and reissuing eclectic music from the Arab world. Behind every release is an extensive process of research and archival work: tracking down forgotten recordings, photographs and documents; tracing personal histories; and reconstructing the cultural contexts surrounding the music.

Fatima Sabouni will reflect on the project’s beginnings, the development of its catalogue and Spotlights, its new publishing project: a magazine conceived as an extension of the label’s research beyond its own catalogue. Through archival photographs, interviews, stories and essays, the publication explores the connections between music, visual culture and cultural memory, telling stories around figures such as Sun Ra, Hartmut Geerken, Fouad Zerrei and Mulatu Astatke.

The talk will consider the role of independent publications as a way to research, preserve and share often-overlooked musical histories, as well as the ability of records, images and archives to reveal unexpected stories about places, people and cultures.

Brevari is a collaborative project by La Breva: a card game that invites you to explore ways of seeing and creativity, while also having fun. The first edition of Brevari launched at Recreo 2025. This year, they’re back and ready to play. Join La Breva for a few games and discover the five games they’ve created using their cards. It’s a chance to get to know the project, learn how to play and spend time together with cards and images—and, above all, photography.

Sorry Press is an independent publishing house based in Munich, working across literature, art and graphic design. From New Aesthetic and New New Typography to novels, exhibitions, a kiosk in Munich and projects in Tokyo, Paris and Hong Kong, Sorry sees books as starting points, not finished products.

A short journey through the Sorry universe, and a question: how do you find a global audience for highly specific things?

Dreaming in Collaboration brings together a selection of posters, leaflets, pamphlets, books, collaborations and other printed matter produced by Secret Riso Club over the past few years. Rather than presenting a linear history, the exhibition offers a cross-section of the collective’s visual identity, artistic practice and strong community ties, revealing how its graphic work grows out of the relationships, encounters and collective processes that shape the project.

The exhibition does not present itself as a living ecosystem in which publications, collaborations, pieces created in workshops and other printed matter become forms of encounter, learning and collective imagination: a constellation of people, ideas and resources that continues to grow, transform and support new possibilities.

Secret Riso Club is an artist-run project and space in Brooklyn, New York, that fosters a creative practice at the intersection of art, design, learning, publishing, printmaking, activism and community building.