Nombrar el agua, an installation of embroidery hoops and single-channel video with sound, in which words in different native languages of Mexico are embroidered by hand to name the water. This piece is based on a legend of a community in the Huasteca mountains that once a year spends the night naming all the things that exist so that at dawn they continue to exist. Name as an act of resistance.
Mecarõ. Amazonia in the Petitgas Collection is the first institutional presentation of the Catherine Petitgas collection. An important figure in the recognition of contemporary Latin American art in Europe, he has been collecting works for more than twenty years. Her collection today consists of more than 900 works. The exhibition presented at the Hôtell des collections brings together a selection of more than 100 works by more than 50 artists from the Amazon basin. The exhibition, whose title means the spirit of the forest in the Krahô language, emphasizes the relationship between these Amazon artists and their socio-economic and mental environment.
Collective exhibition
Mecarõ. Amazonia en la Colección Petitga
Venue: Montpellier Contemporain. Montpellier, Francia
From March 6 to May 31, 2020
More information:
https://www.moco.art/fr/exposition/mecaro-lamazonie-dans-la-collection-petitgas