The Licea Moctezuma cultural center inaugurated the group exhibition “The Feminine Impulse,” a show that brings together the work of 20 artists from different generations and backgrounds.
The exhibition features works by young female artists currently studying visual arts, established artists, and also older women with extensive experience in the art world.
The show includes pieces from various cities across Mexico, including Guadalajara, Colima, and Aguascalientes, as well as artists residing in San Miguel de Allende who originally came from other Mexican states or abroad and are currently developing their creative work in this city.
Among the participating artists are Gabriela Ríos, Georgina Navarro, Jimena Rojas, Darlene Olivia McElroy, Paloma Maciel, Lilian, Yesenia, Yazmín Dzoara Alcázar, Zaira García, Nicole Blanco, María Librada, Mariana Alarcón, Fernanda Castañeda, Alessandra Mortellaro, and Karla Estrella, among others who are part of this collective project.
The goal of this exhibition is to create an open space for the artistic expression of women, as well as any creator who wishes to share their vision through art.
The exhibition aims to serve as a platform for showcasing personal experiences, perspectives, and reflections expressed through various disciplines.
The exhibition features diverse techniques and formats, including photography, lithography, drypoint, drawing, painting, sculpture, and a musical performance by Lilian.
It also includes poems by Georgina Navarro, who contributed her work from the city of Colima.
Monserrat Ramírez, artist and curator of the Licea Moctezuma Gallery, explained that the exhibition brings together perspectives stemming from diverse personal experiences, yet finding common ground through art.
“These works are a statement because they express experiences of love, motherhood, struggle, passion, and eroticism.
“Everything that, from a very particular perspective, somehow coincides, regardless of age, whether because they are starting out in their youth, because they are mothers, or because the wisdom of older women becomes parallel when they converge in a painting, sculpture, photograph, or drawing,” noted Monserrat Ramírez.
She added that the works reflect specific moments in each artist’s life and represent an exercise in creative freedom. “It is the exercise of freedom through art and expressing a lived experience and a very particular moment in the lives of these artists,” she expressed.
Among the participants is visual artist Jesenia García, originally from Salamanca and residing in San Miguel de Allende, who is participating with two watercolors.
“One of them depicts the huizache flower, which is very characteristic of our climate. I have a connection with nature.” The artwork depicts bare feet on thorny mesquite blossoms, symbolizing the calculating mind that seeks solutions to problems,” he explained.
Regarding his second piece, he commented that it is a paper boat sailing on mesquite blossoms. “I try to capture the freedom that innocence brings, or simply freeing the mind, like when you are a child and can create anything,” he noted.
The exhibition will remain open to the public at the Licea Moctezuma gallery until April 20, as part of a project that seeks to give visibility to diverse voices and experiences within contemporary art.
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