The artistic projects of “The Voice of the Mountain” will be carried out until August to celebrate 30 years of the project.
The FEMSA Biennial celebrates its 15th and 30th anniversary. To celebrate, the organizers decided to take Guanajuato and León with a series of projects that are included in The Voice of the Mountain, where the curatorial lines explore corporality, identity, territory and landscape with different exhibitions that will be presented until August in both destinations.
“The Biennial has a great history with a very important legacy and has managed to evolve over time to adapt to the needs of the communities in Mexico. Carrying out this traveling Biennial was a challenge, but it represented many opportunities, it is an opportunity to build a program, a framework, trying to be very sensitive in the territory and have a good effect on the community. We talk a lot about building with the community,” said Mariana Munguía, director of the 15th FEMSA Biennial.
The voice of the mountain is made up of four programs: “Commissions”, which brings together 29 artistic projects developed for this edition; “Relieves”, a public and pedagogical program; “Pie de monte”, a meeting of independent editions, and “Desplazamientos”, made up of film projects that flooded the city.
At the start of the Biennial were María Adriana Camarena de Obeso, general director of the State Institute of Culture of Guanajuato; Ramón Ignacio Lemus, director of the Guanajuato Cultural Forum; the anthropologist Héctor Álvarez Santiago, director of the Alhóndiga de Granaditas Regional Museum of Guanajuato, as well as curators and team of the 15th FEMSA Biennial, among other personalities.
For Mariana Munguía, director of the 15 FEMSA Biennial, “it was necessary to build bridges with all those involved and think of this Biennial not as a museum exhibition, since the level of complexity is very great and commissioning works is not just anything, it is a comprehensive program that unfolds like a large topography full of reliefs, including its innards. Thanks to the institutions and artists for accepting the challenge.”
A banquet of contemporary art
In the tour through the streets of Guanajuato you can see the work of Salvador Xharicata (Cherán, Michoacán, 1996) who made an installation called Return home, in which he dialogues with the past, present and future.
For her part, the artist Magali Lara (Mexico, 1956) created a river with fragments of a poem and invades each of the spaces with a reflection on life and death.
While Lucía Vidales (CDMX, 1986) explores with paint and “weaves” ghostly characters on her translucent canvases.
Tuxamee de León is a visual artist who works with collage, installation and performance. She presents a reinterpretation of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
The visual artist, Néstor Jiménez (CDMX, 1988) presents Tontentanz, which talks about topics such as death with a series of drum and steel base figures, species of Mexican toys with movement in collaboration with Néstor Jiménez.
Source: milenio
