The figure of the desert in Bolaño's work allows us to imagine an unexplored and infertile space. An oasis of horror in the middle of a desert of boredom, as indicated in the epigraph of 2666. Horror is to think of Chihuahua, in the black legend of Ciudad Juárez (Bolaño’s Santa Teresa): the smuggling of alcoholic beverages during the era of American prohibition, the largest arms trade from Texas, a prostitution network and human trafficking, femicides and drug trafficking, all in the midst of a corrupt government and a crumbling city.

Each one of the pieces presented in this exhibition has in common a concern to point out and locate itself in the concept of territory.