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Laureana Toledo is a self-taught artist whose work explores relationships between different media and languages, as well as the assimilation of popular culture and the ways in which we read it. She has exhibited individually and collectively in spaces like Eastside Projects, Birmingham, the Whitechapel Gallery in London, Mexico City’s Modern Art Museum, RedCat in Los Angeles among many others. As a curator, she has collaborated with Francis Alÿs, David Byrne, Lourdes Grobet, the band The Limit, amongst others. Her book, The Limit, published by Trolley Books in London, was published in 2009. She is co-founder of SOMA, a space for artists. She did a residency at Gasworks in London and prepared an art piece in collaboration with the bass guitarist John Taylor. Her collaboration with Mick Jones’ collection was exhibited at the Jumex Museum in 2019, and her documentary about the punk movement in Mexico City is forthcoming.