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Indepth Arts News:
"Coartadas / Alibis"
2002-04-14 until 2002-06-06
Witte de With Center for Contemportary Art
Rotterdam, ,
NL
Coartadas / Alibis provides a critical perspective on Mexican society. Increasing
globalization has in recent years sharpened the social and economic contrasts in
Mexico. Multinationals have a stranglehold on the national economy, the people
suffer under shortages, and some population groups are structurally marginalized.
The government fails to provide an answer to these problems.
The tension between
the traditional political order and the need for social change manifests itself
prominently in the megalopolis Mexico City whose inhabitants confront daily
uncertainties with various survival strategies.
In response to these developments, artists have organized themselves in new art
centers, devoted to political and esthetic explorations. They infiltrate in the status
quo, explore possibilities for resistance against existing power structures, and utilize
shifting identities to respond to a public space marked by rapid change and shifting
social relations.
Coartadas / Alibis was produced in collaboration with the Centre Culturel du
Mexique in Paris, France.
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