Alegorías de la Migración
O’dam ONGd, in collaboration with LABoral and with Instituto Cultural Cabañas (Guadalajara, Mexico), has set in motion A+D. Arte+Desarrollo, a cultural cooperation development project with the common goal of fighting deprivation and social inequality involving a number of cultural agents in its formulation, conception and implementation.
Photo: Marcos Morilla
Concept
Throughout 2009, four artists from Asturias visited Guadalajara. Later, four Mexican artists visited Asturias (and completed a residence at LABoral). This exchange gave the artists a chance to acquaint themselves with the local reality, to interview agents from local social movements and organisations with first-hand experience in dealing with the issue of migration. On the completion of the field work in which the art world cooperated with the Third Sector, the artists produced a piece in which they reflected on what they had seen and experienced.
Alegorías de la Migración [Allegories of Migration] is the exhibition based on the projects produced over the duration of the programme. Selected by the curator for their nomadism, the artists engaged in a reconstruction of their work grounded in metaphorical migration, underscoring the allegory of a journey imposed by critical conditions, in turn rooted in the political organisation of present-day societies. Working with action art, video creation and installation, they advocate new ways of symbolically speaking to the alterity of our time. From a perspective eschewing all spectacularity and ambiguity in addressing the problems affecting our social systems, this exhibition is akin to a symbolic exchange of the places where these artists live, showing specific projects that reflect on what is still proper to art today.
Curated by: José Luis Corazón Ardura
Artists: Maite Centol, Santino Escatel, Cynthia Gutiérrez, Jorge Méndez Blake, Orson San Pedro, Avelino Sala, Pelayo Varela
Collaboration: O'dam ONGd, Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de Jalisco, Instituto Cultural Cabañas , Vive
Coproduction: AECID