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4/2/2010

Migration allegories

El Instituto Cultural Cabanas, Jalisco

Alegorías de la migración [Migration allegories], is a part of the A+D Arte y Desarrollo Project, promoted by the Non- Governmental Organisation for Development (ONGd) O'dam, in collaboration with LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial.

Alegorías de la migración is an exhibition project brought about by the curatorial work of the critic and curator José Luis Corazón which brings together work carried out by Asturian artists Maite Centol, Orson San Pedro (recently deceased), Avelino Sala and Pelayo Varela, and the Mexican artists Santino Escatel, Cynthia Gutiérrez, Jorge Méndez-Blake, during their participation in this project.

A+D Arte y Desarrollo is a cultural cooperation initiative for development that includes the collaboration of El Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón and El Instituto Cultural Cabañas (Guadalajara, Mexico), with the common goal of fighting against poverty and social inequality. The project aims to build bridges between cultures and bring together two worlds that have been separated until now. On the one hand, there is art, denouncing, creating and interpreting reality; on the other hand there is cooperation towards development, fighting with initiatives such as these in order to change the situation. Arte y Desarrollo is supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation through La Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo and La Secretaría de Cultura of the Government of Jalisco (Mexico).

Last November, the three Mexican artists resided in LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial as part of a project that included a previous visit of four Asturian artists in Jalisco. Each finished a work of art reflecting on their experiences that was included as part of the exhibition Alegorías de la migración. The exhibition seeks an allegorical creation of shared artistic spaces between Asturias and Mexico, offering new ideas and languages on population migration and its relation to and frequency among poverty and inequality in our world.

On the ONGd O’dam
O’dam is a non-governmental organisation for development that works to empower people and minority collectives immersed in processes of cultural identity loss, ethnocide, marginalisation and/or exclusion. This ONGd believes development to be a complex concept to be brought about in different ways and according to different ideals in function of the social, cultural and sexual reality of each of the different communities. It has the same implication for citizens in rich or impoverished countries. It understand development to be process continually undergoing revision and construction towards a more just and equitable society where every person and every people have the same opportunities to become fully global citizens. In this process of construction, O’dam ONGd defends social and educational intervention that improves respect for identity and the cultural diversity of people and communities. Their lines of activity include local development, international cooperation for development and cultural research, promotion and dissemination. On the international level, O'dam ONGd has active projects in Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Gambia (Africa) (http://www.odamongd.org).

El Instituto Cultural Cabañas
calle Cabañas, 8, Plaza Tapatía, Colonia Las Fresas, Guadalajara Jalisco Mexico

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