What does it mean to be a native Mexican after centuries of colonization? And how do those cultures present themselves today, despite efforts at their erasure? Those are the questions at the heart of “Los Huecos del Agua” at ExploreNMMA.
What does it mean to be native Mexican after centuries of colonization? And how do those cultures present themselves today, despite efforts at their erasure?” at the National Museum of Mexican Art. The exhibition features works by artists with roots in the native Mexican cultures and has traveled to Chicago after presentations in Mexico City and Puebla.Artist Ana Hernández hails from Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, a city on Mexico’s isthmus famous for its matriarchal culture.
“It’s a project that visualizes how the state of Mexico taught us how to view indigenous people and has erased the individuality, and particularities of each small town. That’s what they taught us,” curator Itzel Vargas Plata said in Spanish. “We forget that they were like individual nations, where each one spoke in their own language, specific way of thinking. This is an opportunity to get into different geographies and touch on these themes that are very relevant to this day.
“After the earthquake, for various reasons, I stayed in Juchitán for about eight to nine months,” Santiago said. “There were many conversations with the community and people asked themselves why the earth had shook that way.”
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