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Jonathan Hernández. Instructions for Living and Working in Mexico
An exhibition in three acts, a revision without revision, thirty years of work and dispersion traverse five presidential of national tragicomedy. A back-and-forth of paradoxes and contradictions, a dissection of the entrails of a country broken but at the same time whole. The portrait of a robust nation in shreds and ashes goes through a journey from landscape to fiction, from politics to deception, from art to artifice without distinction. The fame of infamy in its splendor.
Humor and irony are tools of understanding to cross a path of blindness extended through time and the disease of our own national indigestion. Stories that repeat themselves like symptoms in denial, vices, and voids that are cyclically attended to with supposed urgency, the infinite and absurd ability of the istration in turn exposed to the high contrast of an x-ray, an intuitive inventory of the disaster.
Seeing to know and dissent: the implementation of an empirical knowledge in the form of a mutant exhibition, where the intention does not lie in the formality of the media or in the chronology but in some leaps and drifts in time to activate the exercise of thinking and laughing, an attempt to go through the avernus to which we have become accustomed to live in the daily scam that we gleefully suffer. The archaeologist’s temptation to look inside the litter for the traces of a civilization, traces and signs that perhaps end up giving meaning to the ruins of a dangerously caricatured future.
1st Act: National Lanscape, from February 22nd to April 7th
2nd Act: Political Fiction (The Dinosaur is Still Here), from April 9th to June 2nd
3rd Act: Life and Artice, from June 4th to July 21st
Jonathan Hernández | Artist
Hideki Yukawa | Curator
