Héctor Zamora

The Museo de Arte de Zapopan presents Quimera by Héctor Zamora, a performative action that replicates the dynamics of Mexican informal commerce through a group of street merchants selling bunches of metallic balloons, paying tribute to informal economies and migrant communities.

During the inauguration, the balloons will be for sale at different points in the squares of the Historic Center of Zapopan. After being carried out in settings such as the desert of the Coachella Valley in the United States and in the cruises and avenues of the cities of Lisbon and Faro in Portugal.

For the first time, Quimera occupies a permanent space, as an installation, floating in the Luis Barragán room at the MAZ.

The balloons take the form of words such as JOY, FAMILY, WISH, HOME, WONDER, as well as HUNGER, PAIN, GUN, DENIED to evoke the idea of ​​a chimera. —a dream, illusion or fantasy that is imagined possible, without being so—in relation to the American dream.

Héctor Zamora's work occurs from the identification of global problems, through in situ investigation of local environments. The words of the Wixárika language reveal the relationship with migration among the Wixaritari, an indigenous nation that markets crafts in the central area of ​​Zapopan and whose shared experience in research sessions was fundamental to reformulate Chimera in a micro-context of Mexico.

— MAZ