Esto es lo verdadero

Centro Cultural de España en México inaugurates Esto es lo verdadero/This is what is true: a contemporary re-reading against war and injustice under the curatorship of Adonay Bermúdez.

The exhibition allows us to evaluate concepts such as history, heroism or citizen movement to invite the public to question their own reality.

Eleven artists from various latitudes participate with twenty pieces, including sculpture, installation, documentary, mural, video performance or photocollage.

The title of the exhibition is inspired by one of the 82 engravings from the series “The Disasters of War” by Francisco de Goya, which presents an amalgamation of scenarios that reflect violence, transgression, forced displacement, political repression and death. . However, the last print in this set of engravings, This is what is true, is the only work in the series that dialogues about the future and hope, in addition to delving into and questioning the concept of universal truth.

This philosophical concept suggests the existence of absolute truths, valid everywhere and at all times, but the exhibition presented by the CCEMx proposes other truths, other stories that differ from that official narrative legitimized over the years.

The exhibition “This is what is true”, in the rereading of Adonay Bermúdez, allows us to evaluate concepts such as history, heroism or citizen movement to invite attendees to question their own reality and demonstrate their power to transform the world, all of this, from of the gaze and with the participation of eleven artists from different latitudes and through twenty-one pieces, including sculpture, installation, documentary, mural, video performance or photocollage.

The artists participating in this collective exhibition are: Tania Candiani (Mexico), Alejandro de la Guerra (Nicaragua), Patrick Hamilton (Belgium), Abel Jaramillo (Spain), Voluspa Jarpa (Chile), Regina José Galindo (Guatemala), Teresa Margolles (Mexico), Nuno Nunes-Ferreira (Portugal), Lotty Rosenfeld (Chile), Acaymo S. Cuesta (España) and Avelino Sala (España).

According to the curator, the participating artists “have a clear social commitment: the struggle, from their plots, and the search for a fairer and kinder world; creators who are not afraid to position themselves and who defend values ​​such as freedom or respect, which are reflected in their respective artistic works. In addition, they highlight the importance of the community, public denunciation and the protection of minorities and/or minority groups, among others.”

— Centro Cultural de España en México

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Image: ¿Quién puede borrar las huellas?/ Who can erase the traces? by Regina José Galindo. 2003.