Founded in 2012 in Tehuacán, Mexico, the Los Ingrávidos collective draws inspiration from historical vanguards in order to dismantle commercial and corporate audiovisual grammar and the ideology it contains — calling, in so doing, for greater awareness and mass mobilisation. Combining digital and analogue media, interventions using archive materials, mythology, agitprop, social protests and documentary poetry, the Mexican collective conducts radical experiments that are, in themselves, political objects. Each of these manifests a desire to decolonise ways of seeing the world, from a Latin American perspective.

The collective’s work has already won awards at various film festivals, including Rotterdam and Oberhausen, and has been presented at the Whitney Biennial, the Biennale of Moving Images in Buenos Aires and at MoMA.

In a two-day programme commissioned by Batalha and ICA London, Los Ingrávidos present a selection of their work across two film screenings, a workshop and performances.