Niño de Elche y Pedro G. Romero

Niño de Elche and Pedro G. Romero present their exhibition sadopitnA at Centro Cultural de España en México.

The exhibition sadopitnA, presented by Niño de Elche and Pedro G. Romero, after its presentation at the 2023 Sydney Biennale, the Ateneo de Manila, and CARA Space in New York, arrived at CCEMx as a reflection on the relationships between art, colonialism, and memory from a critical and carnivalesque perspective.

The project proposes a “Pacific flamenco,” traversed by the colonial routes of the Manila Galleon and the cultural transformations derived from imperial expansion. Far from conceiving flamenco as a subject, the artists understand it as a medium and a channel for historical transmission. The installation—composed of loudspeakers intervened with chinerías and hybrid ornaments—unfolds as a “sonorous cabinet” where voices, songs, and resonances from different territories and times converge. The objective was to foster a contemporary dialogue on colonial legacies in artistic practices, encouraging reflection on identity, cultural hybridity, and the re-signification of intangible heritage.

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