How to make a painting behave like a landscape brings together two Mexico City-based artists whose work draws from the languages of comic-strips and cartoons. 

As modern art forms, cartoons in print and on film have played a significant role in popular culture since the early 1900s and have been a site of aesthetic experiments where the border between image and language, representation and reality become porous. By locating their works in the cartoon frame, the artists present poetic and political vistas rooted in a popular imaginary. 

Wendy Cabrera Rubio presents a didactic play that problematizes the multiplane camera patented by Walt Disney Studios in 1940, a technique that generated greater depth in the landscapes of his cartoons. Written in collaboration with Neil Mauricio Andrade, the script accounts for the multiple appearances and reappropriations of Pancho Pistolas, a character who debuted in the film Los tres caballeros (1944). The project explores the social and political implications of this popular cartoon.