Peña Salinas’ practice draws on multiple aesthetics, spanning Aztec imagery to Minimalist installation, in order to undermine cultural and colonial clichés in Mexico. Departing from the figure of Tláloc, the god of rain, Peña Salinas constructs a non-linear narrative that shows the multiple layers through which Aztec culture has been appropriated by the Mexican nation-state. While tracking the original location of the Tláloc monolith, now a major artifact in the National Anthropology Museum of Mexico City, Peña Salinas points to how the continuing colonial mindset of the local political elites continues to foster extractivism across multiple scales and fields – from culture and archeology to natural resources and infrastructural development.