Edgardo Aragon
dal 24/8/2012 al 12/1/2013
Segnalato da
24/8/2012
Edgardo Aragon
Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo - MUAC, Mexico City
Por amor a la disidencia (For the love of dissent). His work explores the intersection between the social and the political, the rural and the urban. His films and photographs lead us to places that manifest conflict zones contained in the Mexican landscape. Each of his video-installations tells us a story that reveals the fracture in the 'system'.
Curators Cecilia Delgado Masse and Alejandra Labastida
For the love of Dissident takes its title from a series of reflections on space and the forms in which it is occupied, establishing a dichotomy between up and down, inside and outside, center and periphery. Projects have been sought that appeal, whether by theme or in their formal qualities, to transgression and defiance, that is, forcing to generate ideas and forms that are not part of an established normativity. The project starts with the Mexican artist Edgardo Aragón, whose work explores the intersection between the social and the political, the personal and the public, the rural and the urban. His films and photographs lead us to places that manifest conflict zones contained in the Mexican landscape. Each of his video-installations tells us a story that reveals the fracture in the “system”, the repercussions of the political upon the social and personal.
Tinieblas (Darkness), 2009
Starting with a series of reflections about the conflicts resulting from cross-border migration, Edgardo Aragón undertakes an investigation into the territorial limits of his city of birth, Ocotlán de Morelos, in Oaxaca, one of the largest states in Mexico. It is divided into 570 municipalities, some of which are wholly enclosed by others, leading to territorial conflicts relating to cultural diversity and to the politics of appropriating space, where the strategic and political code for establishing such limits is the mojón or boundary marker.
Sexta Sur
Proyecto Sexta Sur is a an annual curatorial program that consists of four solo exhibitions in a gallery designated to integrate local and international emerging artists, in order to create a space for experimentation, dialogue and visibility for the new generations. Playing with the idea of the room as a space whose occupation in different time frames adds up, every project is conceived as a fraction of a whole: 1 / 4, 2 / 4, 3 / 4 and 4 / 4.
For the love of dissent is the title of the first exhibition series of Sexta Sur composed by Edgardo Aragón (Mexico), Latifa Echakhch (Morocco), Laura Lima (Brazil) and Marcela Armas (Mexico).
Coproduced with the Museo Amparo, Puebla, México
Department of Press & Media
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Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo - MUAC
Insurgentes Sur 3000 - Centro Cultural Universitario - Mexico City
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