Migración

Migración (Migration), the exhibition and social reflection project by Santiago Robles (Mexico City, 1984), is a historical review of the founding of Mexico: from Tenochtitlan to the end of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), about this "mythical / idealized time and that other factual and painfully real time in which we live that merge without dissolving, to maintain a contradiction that aesthetically appeals to the viewer: the axolotl and Tony the Tiger, Ronald McDonald holding Quetzalcoatl, Super Mario Bros eating the plant of power that will return him to Mictlan while spiting fire from his mouthʺ (HKB Translation)--Page 8. Constituted in two sections, Migration is itself a transfer from the south to the north, from the present to the past. One part presentd in La Trampa Gráfica Contemporánea (located in the Historic Center) and the other in the Faculty of Arts and Design of the UNAM (located on a southern sector, both spaces in Mexico City). Migración (Migration), the exhibition and social reflection project by Santiago Robles (Mexico City, 1984), is a historical review of the founding of Mexico: from Tenochtitlan to the end of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), about this "mythical / idealized time and that other factual and painfully real time in which we live that merge without dissolving, to maintain a contradiction that aesthetically appeals to the viewer: the axolotl and Tony the Tiger, Ronald McDonald holding Quetzalcoatl, Super Mario Bros eating the plant of power that will return him to Mictlan while spiting fire from his mouthʺ (HKB Translation)--Page 8. Constituted in two sections, Migration is itself a transfer from the south to the north, from the present to the past. One part presentd in La Trampa Gráfica Contemporánea (located in the Historic Center) and the other in the Faculty of Arts and Design of the UNAM (located on a southern sector, both spaces in Mexico City)