Artists from Mexico and South Africa have been engaging in conversations with audiences in the two countries, challenging cultural clichés and stereotypes.
Cultural clichés are like a blunt axe. Take Mexico . If the marketers of a local tequila and spicy chicken brand are to be believed, Mexico is a place of fearsome Mesoamerican Olmecs and hardy revolutionaries in sombreros à la Pancho Villa of a century ago. Of course, these essentialist corporate fantasies about national cultures exist everywhere.
Can artists — a frequent-flyer class who rival politicians and business leaders as emissaries from elsewhere — make a difference? Perhaps, but it is slow and incremental work destabilising a cliché. Over the past year, without much razzle-dazzle, art and artists from Mexico and South Africa have been engaged in conversations with audiences in the two countrie
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