Carlo Canún
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Pop-up shop for the Infected lexicon of language as part of the exhibition show “Display Garden Display” at the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, 2023. www.infectedlexiconoflanguage.xyz
Photographs by José Miguel Ramírez.



“Small Town, Big Hell.” Tallinn, Estonia, 2023.
Workshop and launching event

Small Town, Big Hell was a five-day workshop organised and conducted alongside Alexandra Margetic and Mark Foss for the Graphic Design BA students at the Estonian Academy of arts. Pueblo chico, infierno grande, in Spanish, is a saying referring to the excess of gossip in small towns.The workshop started by discussing mythologies, rumours and complaints about Tallinn, which lead to knowing that the city is famous for its big amount of ugly and mostly unnecessary monuments. That’s when we gave life to Elfriide Juulia Moore, a woman deserving of commemoration. 

Throughout the week, the students worked on ways of legitimising information by exploring the act of making public through graphic design, distribution methods, sculpture and performance.

The monument commemorating Elfriide Juulia Moore, still stands in Tallinn to date.



“An Ephemeral Trace” at Drama, Tallinn, Estonia, 2022.
Project, exhibition display

An exploration on forms to archive queer histories. The wallpaper takes center stage in the exhibition. Covering the entire wall at Drama, it transforms the space into both a site of protest and resistance, and a reflection of home, evoking the spirit of grassroots archives.



Launching events for the series “Exercises in Practical Mischievery” edited by Aubrie Savage.
In collaboration with Laura Pappa.

The launches for #4, #5 and #6 took place in Tallinn; REDO, Prishtina; and San Serriffe, Amsterdam in 2023. The launching events were accompanied by customized paper cups depending on the location, extra long spoons for extra long drinks, and reading performances feautring Laura Pappa, Maki Suzuki and Carlo Canún.

The launch for #7, #8, #9 took place at the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn in 2025. The event was accompained by a rhubarb cocktail, Sautéed Olives, and reading performances featuring Laura Pappa, Eva Claycomb, Carlo Canún and the crowd.



“The Order of Books” at Lugemik Bookshop, Tallinn, Estonia, 2021.
Project, exhibition display and printed matter

Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ fictional encyclopedia ‘Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge’, The Order of Books consists on an alternate taxonomy of 80 books at Lugemik Bookshop with the aim to explain the arbitrariness of any attempt to categorize the world, questioning our ways of thinking about truth, discourse and language.

The Order of Books consists of categories such as: Books that make you sweat, Books to cover the floor with while painting, Books that belong to this category, Books that from afar look like flies, Books recommended by the visitors of this exhibition, between others.

Supporting the exhibitions, I created a website that functions as a randomizer tool to create an infinate number of categories.



“El orden de los libros” at Aeromoto, Mexico City, 2022.
Project, exhibition display and printed matter

Photographs by José Miguel Ramírez.




Launching of Fabulations of Exiluity at Linnahall. Tallinn, Estonia, 2023.

A picnic-style gathering by the beach featuring a story-telling session of selected Fabulations of Exiluity.