Within the framework of the celebrations for the month of diversity, the Mexico City Museum will inaugurate three new exhibitions this Saturday, June 18: Lavender City, Queer Art Biennial, Cycles and Origin, announced the capital’s Ministry of Culture.
The collective exhibition Lavender City, Biennial of Queer Art, which is traditionally exhibited in California, United States, arrives in Mexico for the first time in its fifth edition and addresses issues of identity, activism, future and beauty, with the queer perspective as the common thread .
Exhibited in the Immersive Room, located on the ground floor, the exhibition shares 48 photographs that portray a wide range of voices from identity, experimentation and the personal, showing a curtain of artists from Mexico and the United States who belong to the LGBTQ+ community, who explore creation from painting, photography, drawing, installation and performance.
It is worth mentioning that this year the Biennial of Queer Art, which will be in the venue until Sunday, August 14, is dedicated to the memory of Bell Hooks, writer and social activist, feminist, American-
The Sala Juárez will receive the work of the Mexican artist Ernesto Alba, who with more than 20 years of study and experimentation with multiple engraving techniques presents the show Ciclos, which will be available until September 4, consisting of a selection of drawings and engravings from three consecutive series: Cycles I (2019), Spiral (2020) and Cycles III (2021).
Visitors will be able to discover the work of the artist intrigued by time, in its linear and circular phase, and by intuition and reason in a constant dialogue. The exhibition is complemented by another body of works that precedes, both in execution and in intention, the central set, to show the repetition, variation and progression of geometric and organic forms in continuous stalking, conflict and negotiation through line and space. circle.
Also until September 4, but in the Sala Salvador Novo, the exhibition Origen, by Juan Pablo Calatayud, will be inaugurated, presenting 24 works that include painting, sculptures, digital prints, mixed media pieces and an installation of light boxes, the majority unpublished, where memories are rescued from the traces left by the material in the memory.
In the work of this transgenerational inquiry, memory-objects undergo a process of fossilization: they remain suspended in themselves, as if they could also suspend the time from which they come, becoming memory fossils that lose their purely individual character to become symbols. of time gone
An example of these everyday fossils is a family album, in which the artist intervenes and integrates the photos, diplomas, driver’s license, letters, illegible documents and some image of a dog of yesteryear in a piece that attests not not only of the life of those people in particular, but of a representative portion of the daily life of Mexico in the 20th century.
The City Museum is located at José María Pino Suárez 30, Historic Center, it is open to the public from Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with an entrance fee of $38 pesos with a discount for students, teachers and elderly people. On Wednesdays admission is free.