Encuentro fugitivo
Thursday, 18 October 2018 22:00
Written by Aurora Noreña
This series recreates pre-Hispanic pottery vessels (even those of other temporalities and geographies) that left their country illegally and now constitute public or private collections abroad that take advantage of them to strengthen their cultural industries and tourism increasing their prestige.
I do re-appropriation by means of reinterpretation from a different aesthetic platform: that of the 'Acapulco chair', an anonymous modern Mexican design that, like the pre-Hispanic heritage, is an identity binder.
My intention is to achieve a symbolic repatriation by displaying the traffic of cultural heritage and the lack of interest from beneficiary and non-beneficiary countries to persecute the looters and to compensate the dispossessed as well.
From the materials used, their colors and patterns of weaving, I develop a wide range of formal, chromatic, and spatial solutions, allowing me to elevate productions of great artistic value, which in general terms have been considered minor work, to a sculptural level.
This series recreates pre-Hispanic pottery vessels (even those of other temporalities and geographies) that left their country illegally and now constitute public or private collections abroad that take advantage of them to strengthen their cultural industries and tourism increasing their prestige.
I do re-appropriation by means of reinterpretation from a different aesthetic platform: that of the 'Acapulco chair', an anonymous modern Mexican design that, like the pre-Hispanic heritage, is an identity binder.
My intention is to achieve a symbolic repatriation by displaying the traffic of cultural heritage and the lack of interest from beneficiary and non-beneficiary countries to persecute the looters and to compensate the dispossessed as well.
From the materials used, their colors and patterns of weaving, I develop a wide range of formal, chromatic, and spatial solutions, allowing me to elevate productions of great artistic value, which in general terms have been considered minor work, to a sculptural level.