Chuma Montemayor

Arte Expuesto presents artwork by Chuma Montemayor on the screens of the exhibition route of the month.

The piece called “Untitled” 2012, which shows an empty bed, is a hint to the work “Bed”, which twenty years ago, in 1992, Félix Gonzales-Torres exhibited on the streets of New York as a subtle reference to the AIDS epidemic and a special tribute to his partner, who had died of the virus months before.

“Untitled” is nothing more than an image of emptiness, a search to compare a health crisis that at one time got out of hand, with the constant and discouraging struggle we face every day in the country; that of organized crime.

This bed, which I inhabited during the negotiation of my mother's kidnapping, marks and pays tribute to the loved ones who have been left behind, disappeared, kidnapped, murdered at the hands of drug traffickers and who did not return to their beds, and to those of us who returned, but were never the same again.

— Chuma Montemayor