Resistance: Cultural and Political Narratives in Mexican Art
The exhibition features works by contemporary Mexican artists whose practices primarily engage questions of freedom of expression, history, and social justice and serve as public channels of dissent. Through sculpture, installation, performance-based documentation, textiles, and printmaking, the exhibition considers how artists reflect on Indigenous knowledge, collective memory, and contemporary social contexts. The exhibition includes work by Jacobo and María Ángeles, master Oaxacan wood carvers, best known for their sculptural interpretations of tonas and nahuales—vivid, fantastical wooden sculptures that blend imagination, folklore, and cultural symbolism, drawing on Zapotec cosmologies. Their works stand as both cultural continuity and political assertion in the face of erasure. The exhibition also features work by Adela Goldbard, whose practice centers on collective memory, power, and the ways history is constructed, erased, or ritualized—often through acts that are both symbolic and materially destructive—and prints by Mario Guzmán, who utilizes graphic art as a tool for social engagement with a strong emphasis on community, labor, and political struggle, alongside members of Subterráneos, a collective he leads in Oaxaca, rooted in socially engaged printmaking traditions that address political and community-based concerns. Renata Cassiano Alvarez presents sculptures from her ongoing series Siempre Voy a Volver (“I Will Always Return”), alongside […]
