LA HUELLA DEL (AGUA) TIEMPO EN FORMA DE GRIETA
THE TRACE OF (WATER) TIME IN THE FORM OF CRACK
Collective exhibition
04.14.2024-06.06.2024
Planta Libre Espacio Experimental
Mexicali, México
This exhibition brought together the network of people who constitute and think with Archivo Familiar del Río Colorado, as well as a diversity of documentary materials that have been compiled over the last three years: from images of families in the canals of the Mexicali Valley, historical photographs of the Río Nuevo, our records in the lagoon system, maps from the last century, as well as chronicles of explorers and settlers in the Delta.
La huella del (agua) tiempo en forma de grieta presents a collective investigation and the reflections of fifteen participants who use the artistic field to explore their experiences of territory and landscape. The work is based on fiction, experimentation, and affective experience that arose from the previous project Invocaciones al agua entre los cerros. Since May 2022, artist Enero y Abril has guided and accompanied the artistic processes that emerged from the series of walks carried out at the confluence of the river and the Laguna Salada, and in some canyons of the Sierra Cucapá and Sierra Juárez, which surround the dry basin of the lagoon; urging the interpretation of fissures and crevices, both in the bodily experience and in the landscape.
Curated by Jessica Sevilla, Rosela del Bosque and Enero y Abril.
Title and curatorial text: Jessica Sevilla
Program and activities: Jessica Sevilla and Rosela del Bosque
Poster design: Rosela del Bosque
Production and funding: Jessica Sevilla
Museography: Minoru Kiyota, Enero y Abril, Jessica Sevilla and Rosela del Bosque
Images: Mayté Miranda
Publication:
Editorial design: Chao Chato and Enero y Abril
Press: Taller de Impresiones
With the support of the Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo A.C.
Exhibition view
Collage map pin-pointing in which landscape and/or body of water each participant developed their artistic research. Design: Jessica Sevilla
Azul&Adoette, Pozo 8, Experimental video, 1:48 min, 2024
Mauricio Villa, Rancho Los Olivos. Digital photography and found wood ensemble. 160 x 90 cm. 2024
Jessica Sevilla, Solicitud para el establecimiento de industrias turísticas, de innovación científica y desarrollo económico sustentable en la Laguna Salada. Visual essay and apropiation with institutional archives. 6:56 min. 2024
Hugo Fermé, Contenedor. Video-performance, 7:22 min. 2024
Rosela del Bosque, The Power of Letting Off Steam. DIA and CIA archives with archival images of the Cerro Prieto Power Station. Print on paper. 60 x 120 cm. 2024
Enero y Abril, El regimen del polvo. Video. 3:52 min. 2024