¡SACÚDETE!
Nuria Montiel
10 Julio de 2013 - 05 Enero de 2014
Espacio de exhibición: Sala principal
Curaduría: María Elena Ortiz
Shake It Out! Is a performance series by Mexican artist Nuria Montiel inspired from photographs of protests in The Americas that form part of the Proyecto Siqueiros Archive. It stresses the aesthetic relationship between social upheavals and body movements. The actions reference what Montiel considers the poetics of discontent -those traditional acts exercised during manifestations, such as banners, fists in the air, and marches.
Working with a group of collaborators, Montiel symbolically takes the museum’s entrance and develops a theater of shadows inspired by images of social unrest, such as the beating of drums, the distortion of a megaphone, pot-banging or the movement of a body governed by an anarchic motion. Shake It Out!´s narrative will be imprinted on the entrance of the museum, as the performers make impressions with body paint, stencils, ink and other gestures.
With a keen interest in printmaking, Montiel’s artistic practice focuses on strategies of participation in the public sphere. Like one of her best known works, the Mobile Printing Press (2009-2012), Shake It Out! is a special production for Proyecto Fachada that takes advantage of collective encounters to generate an art experience. From a generational standpoint, the piece questions the purpose of the poetics of discontent in contemporary society.
María Elena Orti
- Curadora -
Luis Mosquera
- Producción -
Daniela Arroio
Mahoalli Nassourou
Gutemberg Brito
- Registro en video -
Diego Espinosa
- Música -
Tania Solomonoff
- Asesoría Coreográfica -
Llamas A Mi
- Montaje -
Marcela Quiroz
- Traducción -
Rafael Ortega
Alicia Medina
Abraham Cruzvillegas
Mónica Montes
Nadia Lartigue
Bambú Audiovisual
José Luis Hernández
Salvador Ortega
Michael Schmitz
Axel Arnold
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