Drawing on reconstruction as an aesthetic operation, NOE MARTÍNEZ (Mexico, 1986) work starts out from his personal history to take a critical stance in the face of social phenomena. Issues such as the ethnic vindication of the indigenous peoples of Mexico and the political potential of memory are at the core of his reflections on the elaboration of the common past. His work has been exhibited in different museums in Mexico – MUAC, Alumnos47 Foundation, Museum de Arte Carrillo Gil, Museo Amparo, among others – Palazzo Mora, in Venice, Art Center Kunstquartier Bethanien, in Berlin, and School of Art and Design, in Geneva. He received the Ojo Alba Brothers Award for best documentary at the 15th Morelia International Film Festival and was part of the official selection of the Native Crossroads festival in Oklahoma, United States.
In the video INTERRUPCIÓN DEL SUEÑO (2018), the interruption of the dreamemerges as an investigation of 16th-century colonial Indian documents in Michoacán, among the current Purepechas who inhabit that state in Mexico. The video stems from work in the community of Cherán, who gained autonomy in 2011 after rising up and expelling drug dealers and political parties from their territory. Amid masks, music, processions and rituals, the work narrates the changing of the 12 councilors (keris) of the Communal Government Major Council, the collective governing body of Cherán. Spectators are introduced to a new symbolic dimension of political representation at the core of Mexican indigenous social movements.
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