Jul 01 2022
Offsite Performance | Noé Martínez and María Sosa: Una ballena, una serpiente, frijoles rojos y el mar
Fri | 7PM
Located at Seminario 12, Centro Histórico de la Cdad. de México, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06000 Centro, CDMX, Mexico
Swiss Institute is pleased to present a new performance by artists Noé Martínez and María Sosa at Seminario 12 on the occasion of their current exhibition, Tepalcates de Sueños. With their voices and movements, Martínez and Sosa will translate four dreams, represented as paintings in the exhibition. Through these expressive modes, the artists demonstrate the potentials of embodied dreaming: an expansion of consciousness free from colonial hegemony, a blurring of the distinctions of waking life, an establishment of new ways of interpreting reality. The performance will last approximately 20 minutes.
Swiss Institute se complace en presentar un nuevo performance de los artistas Noé Martínez y María Sosa en Seminario 12, dentro del marco de la actual exhibición, Tepalcates de sueños. Utilizando sus voces y movimientos, Martínez y Sosa traducirán cuatro sueños, mismos que se encuentran representados en pinturas de la exhibición. Los artistas demuestran el potencial del soñar corporizado por medio de estas técnicas expresivas: una expansión de la conciencia libre de hegemonía colonial, un difuminar de las distinciones de la vida despierta, la consolidación de nuevas maneras de interpretar la realidad. El performance tendrá una duración aproximada de 20 minutos.
To RSVP please email rsvp@swissinstitute.net.
Noé Martínez (b. 1986, lives and works in Mexico City, MX) is a visual artist and filmmaker who graduated from Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado (“La Esmeralda”), Mexico City. His work functions as a case study that emerges from personal history, making use of ethnographic methodologies and research of the various histories of indigenous communities of the American continent. His work has been presented at the Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana (2020); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2019); 21 Bienal de Arte contemporáneo SESC Videobrasil, Sao Paulo (2019); FilmFront, Chicago (2019); Native Crossroad Film Festival, Norman (2018); Festival Internacional de Cine, Morelia (2018) Festival Internacional de Cine, Morelia (2018), where he, with María Sosa won the Eye to the Best Short Film of Michoacán Award; and International Performance Art Week, Venice (2016).
María Sosa (b. 1985, lives and works in Mexico City, MX) holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo. Her work develops from research about colonial pasts and how they shape contemporary racial, sexual and social dynamics in the American continent. Throughout her practice, Sosa pays particular attention to the eradication of knowledge surrounding non-western ways of life and prehispanic cultures. Her work has been exhibited at Fundación Casa de México, Madrid (2022); Laboratorio de Arte Alameda, Mexico City (2021-2022); Tale of a Tub, Amsterdam (2021); Arewá, Madrid (2021); Servais Family Collection, Brussels (2020); Lasécu Artothèque, Lille (2019); FilmFront, Chicago (2018- 2019); Native Crossroad Film Festival, Norman (2018); Festival Internacional de Cine, Morelia (2018), where she won the Eye to the Best Short Film of Michoacán Award; and International Performance Art Week, Venice (2016).
Image: Stills from video component of Teplacates de Sueños. Courtesy of the artists.
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