Panorama

The photographic installation "Panorama" is a visual experiment base on the photographic collection of the Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM) conceived and curated by artist Laureana Toledo (b. México, 1970). Far from presenting a thematic or historical guideline, the content of the exhibition was guided by an experimental review originating in thematic nuclei formed as an analogy to the composition of a rock group where each musician or nucleus has a unique personality although they function as a unit. This proposal also generated a series of reflections on topics related to the photographic work. The more than 150 pieces were exhibited in the museum space simulating an eye, generating a center where all can be observed, reinforcing the idea of a panoramic view of the collection. "This complete project -the exhibition and the catalog- unearths some objects of the collection, breaking their harmony and daily silence inside the cellar where they were guarded. A file has been activated -this file of images- and while moving it, putting it into circulation, establishes new networks to the inside of the collection itself. A close-kept file is neatly repressed and therefore this (the project) has been an exercise of liberation. Laureana searched the things that have been kept away, similar with the exercise and self-consciousness when an individual inquires about his/her own fears and has not dared to confront." (Our translation)--P. 13.