Exhibition with Johanna Unzueta
Concepci\u00f3n 41, Antigua Guatemala
August – September, 2015<\/p>\n
Indigo #0 – #6<\/em>, 2015 Notebook #7<\/em>, 2015 \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/<\/p>\n\n\n \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/<\/p>\n INDIGO is the title of our exhibition at Concepci\u00f3n 41. It is also the door to a different world that we understand as a space where we can promote and make our works participate. This door, which is a color, is a formality in all its expression. It is also an attractive element, that can dazzle or even produce a moment of silence, of contemplation. It is also a hinge, between our intentions and the expectations that we have of that place \u2013 as well as the expectations that the place has towards us. Finally, it is a way to connect with techniques to be learned, to the knowledge that is normally left aside by the circuits of contemporary art, where for example dyeing and embroidery are generally considered artisanal techniques rather than tools that can be used to discuss \u201ccurrent issues\u201d. This has to do with the settled notion of the de-manualization of contemporary practices, which we oppose. At this moment we find ourselves on a crossroads: trying to look at and to understand the future and past simultaneously. And at the bottom of this disjunctive are the textiles, what great textiles! The fabrication of these in such a rich region like this one cannot be ignored \u2013 mostly because of the kind of work we produce –\u00a0 yet we also do not want to fall into superficial assimilation of its ethnic, social, and political components. This is why we prefer the honesty of the indigo color, we prefer the honesty of choosing and focusing on just one element, which has a specific history and development within the region. We grab onto this element and secretly think \u201chopefully everything gets dyed\u201d. Imagine Antigua all tinted in indigo-blue: a strange Mayan world, ancestral, indigenous and colonial, internationally and locally touristic. All in one color, or maybe everything in a gradation of the same color. Our works are separate beings yet they are used to dialogue, between themselves and also with the places where they exhibit. Also, sometimes when exhibited together, they aim to produce a certain confusion of authorship. This is why the exhibition at Concepci\u00f3n 41 was thought of as a flow of confrontations that accentuate certain characteristics of the place. The green of the patio, growing with the arrival of rains, which take their time but arrive, a perfect open \u201cGreen Cube\u201d. The trees next to the empty pool, perfect natural columns. The studio-office-house, leaning or supported, to the destroyed Church of La Concepci\u00f3n. And in the background the volcano, and those crazy clouds.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ….<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2015 CONCEPCI\u00d3N 41 Installation views, IndigoExhibition with Johanna UnzuetaConcepci\u00f3n 41, Antigua GuatemalaAugust – September, 2015 Indigo #0 – #6, 2015Hand dyed cotton fabric, thread and embroidered cotton75 x 130 cm each Notebook #7, 2015Projected video5:47 min., in loop \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ INDIGO is the title of our exhibition at Concepci\u00f3n 41. 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Hand dyed cotton fabric, thread and embroidered cotton
75 x 130 cm each<\/p>\n
Projected video
5:47 min., in loop<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/felipemujica.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3889-1500x1128.jpg\")
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