BOOK LAUNCH :

DANIEL CASTREJÓN - THINGS THE PAST REFUSED TO LEAVE
(MI - SO EDITIONS, 2025)

OCTOBER. 26, 2025 @ 15 - 19h

Join us for the launch of the newest mi - so editions publication by Mexican artist Daniel Castrejón, entitled Things the Past Refused to Leave. Daniel is known as the label owner of Umor Rex as well as being a graphic designer for many artists, labels and festivals in the music business.

Daniel is on a short Berlin visit and will be present for the launch of his first art book, which merges his interest in old postcards and magazines with stark drawings of form and colours, creating a vivid, intruiging contrast.

Our doors will be open between 15h and 19h this Sunday afternoon and the book will be available for purchase. We will offer drinks and play music. Come join us for this rare opportunity to meet Daniel in person.

The drawings in this collection were created out of a need to stop collecting postcards merely for archiving purposes and instead turn them into canvases. To the postcards, pages from old books and magazines were added, along with a few contemporary ones, though fewer. The drawings made on these surfaces consist of simple forms and colors, executed with markers and fountain pens. The original postcards and pages possess a natural beauty, whether through their simplicity or their editorial eccentricity. The idea behind the pieces contained in "Things the Past Refused to Leave" is to make them present once again through a whimsical and aesthetically personal intervention, a form of editorial resistance and recycling. Paradoxically, this exercise has only increased the urge to archive, to keep gathering pages and postcards that might later return transformed into something else. Daniel Castrejón is a graphic designer, visual artist, and record-label founder based in Mexico City. - Daniel Castrejón