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Flash 3.0 :Focus on Contemporary Art in Puebla

Landscape

Flash: Focus on Contemporary Art in Puebla is a project sponsored by Museo Amparo in collaboration with the Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura de Puebla that proposes a dialogue with the artistic community of this State and a collective reflection for the production of works and practices that address issues of social relevance for our context.

The third edition of Flash focuses on the concept of landscape. In the scope of this project, beyond being understood as a genre of representation, it is considered as a tool for observation and analysis to unveil narratives that concern aesthetic, political, economic, ecological, and social aspects of the State.

The projects selected for the exhibition start from a situated observation that gives rise to artistic processes that—from particular viewpoints and specific relationships with certain historical moments—build new stories that connect events, natural elements, architectures, word uses, and the life of the inhabitants of these territories.

Túmitl, a working group of women weavers, reflects on the relationship between weaving, dyeing, and the environment as well as about collective learning processes. Claudia Castelán presents a documental archive that examines the urban context and reconstructs the interactions between the public space of the city of Puebla and the underground music scene in the predigital era. Katya Mora investigates the knowledge that develops around the Popocatépetl volcano through the different ways in which humans and non-humans relate it. Guillermo Espinosa Estrada contrasts the ways of thinking and describing the territory of the State, present in the writings of the native nations and the Spaniards who arrived in Mexico in the sixteenth century and, through them, establishes subtle connections with our present.

Claudia Castelán | Artist

Guillermo Espinosa Estrada | Artist

Katya Mora | Artist

Túmitl | Artists

Nina Fiocco | Coordinator