The Injertos project, commissioned to Adán Vallecillo for the XIV FEMSA Biennial 2020, and now presented at Galería Extra, is based on the video El Fuerte, El Aventurero y La Loca, filmed in avocado plantations and industrial processing plants in Michoacán, Mexico. The images coexist with a narration in Purépecha that does not correspond to what is illustrated in the video. The oral narration narrates the life of Rudolph Hass and how he developed and patented the Hass avocado, a product of great international demand that continues to be cultivated at the expense of other endemic species.

This process of fierce industrialization is explored by Vallecillo through graphite drawings or wall pieces such as Reticulares Cifrados, made of or deriving from plastic grids from avocado storage boxes - most of which would otherwise end up as industrial waste.

Like in previous projects by the artist, in Reticulares Cifrados he resorts to industrial objects that lend themselves to the articulation of abstract solutions. Each piece is a non-figurative composition, and at the same time, it is a documentation of contemporary industrial entropy. In this way, it presents a different way of understanding realism in addition to focusing on the plastic integration of the works with the architecture of the space.

Finally, Injertos includes 3 sculptures made with other objects from the avocado production cycle: Bólide Conjuro, Danaus Plexippus ( Mariposa Monarca) and Encapuchados. The latter features 2 industrial avocado cleaning brushes, half-covered with a pair of socks printed with the fruit. The piece not only reveals the scope of the consumer culture around the avocado that appears in different merchandise, but also evokes certain social issues surrounding its cultivation.

— Daniel Usabiaga, Curator