2018 XIII BIENAL FEMSA
Installation views, reserach and production, Ellos ya habían aprendido que todo lo que sueñan puede existir
Group show, Nunca fuimos contemporaneos, XIII Bienal FEMSA, Zacatecas
Curated by Daniel Garza Usabiaga
October 25, 2018 – February 16, 2019
Ellos ya habían aprendido que todo lo que sueñan puede existir, 2018
Cotton fabric, wool fabric, Acrilán woven fabric (acrylic fiber), thread, hand embroidered cotton yarn and “chaquira” (plastic beads).
20 curtains, dimensions variable
Hay luz en cada ventana V, 2018
Silkscreen prints on paper, unique copies
Dimensions variable
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Wall text: Felipe Mujica presents a group of prints as well as several pieces from the Curtain series. The designs of the silkscreen prints make “reference to Latin American political posters, psychedelic imagery, Japanese graphic design, book covers of publications ranging from Science Fiction to Mathematics and Copyright free image banks. They share the historical context of 1968 and also share a universal graphic language. The appropriation of these pre-existing images aims to investigate their social and symbolic status as well as cross culture references they possibly share”. On the other hand, the Curtains function as a formal counterpart and are produced following the structure of a series. Reflecting on the history of Latin American Geometric Abstract Art their designs are based on a system that “as a staring point a rectangle, with the proportions of the final panel, is divided creating a grid with horizontal, vertical and diagonal partitions.” A vital element for this particular group is that Mujica worked with the studio Zarapes Ruelas in Guadalupe and with the wixárika craft-masters Lucía Carbajal Aguilar and Marcos García López in the production of curtains that distinguish themselves for their textile quality and the chromatic playfulness in the application of embroidery and the use of chaquiras [plastic beads]. With these pieces the artist intends to articulate complex spatial situations, the curtains dialogue between themselves as well as with the viewer and space, creating circulation and directing our attention.
The title of this family of curtains is based on a phrase found in the book “The Dream of the Gods and Other Huichol Short Stories”, by Gabriela Olmos, published in 2012 by Artes de México.
Thanks to: Lucía Carbajal Aguilar, Marcos García López, Juan Ruelas, Juan Pablo Ruelas, Keegan Cooke. Installation asistant: Gaspar Gu.
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