Feral / DARK CARTOGRAPHIES
curated by Ruslana Lictzier
March 18 – April 17 2016
Mariana Magdaleno
Jorge Rosano Gamboa
Christian
Castañeda
Christian
Castañeda
Jorge Rosano Gamboa
Christian
Castañeda
Benjamin Sagols
Benjamin Sagols
from left to right : Christian Castañeda, Roberto
Flores, Jorge Rosano Gamboa
Jorge
Rosano Gamboa
Roberto Flores
Contemplating the specificity of Central
America, the Mexico-City based collective, Feral,
treat themselves both as cartographers and as the map. Dark Cartographies presents the mappings of new physical,
conceptual and mental intersections of the individual territories. The show
challenges with the emblematic question of, how to trace routes between two
distinct and yet connected coordinates.
e.g.:
Coordinate 1: The urus are prayer arrows used by the Huichol people, an indigenous
ethnic group in western Mexican states. On these arrows every feather, yarn,
bead, and line symbolizes a secret language understood by the gods. Facing the
sky, the arrows are stuck in the ground and on top of the Huichol adobe roofs.
The belief is that the private prayer, concealed in the tip of the arrow, is
held within until the evaporation of the last rain-drop that fell on it;
whereby it is then released to the gods.
…
Coordinate 2: The Castillo is
a social / architectural phenomenon in the Mexican strata; an exposed vertical
cage of reinforced steel that extends from the depths of the foundation to the
intended roof of the house; a modern structural prayer for a better future,
that will bring prosperity in the form of an additional floor to the domain.
…
The result is featured in the upcoming
show at Efrain Lopez Gallery, where Modern and ancient histories and myths
collide on one plane, creating an unstable map, that may lead to places yet to
come.