La Postal a project by Revista Terremoto The project ‘La Postal’, will be the introduction of a new experimental exhibition space, where Revista Terremoto seeks to exhibit projects derived from research around institutional, independent or personal archives on topics that have been little visible (sexual dissidence, women artists, sex work, migration, among others), reviewed by young artists as well as established curators and researchers to to generate reflections before a young public. Today, Mexico is a nation where affluence, poverty, natural splendor and urban blight rub shoulders. It has the second-largest economy in Latin America, and is a major oil exporter. Tens of thousands of people have been killed in drugs-related gang violence in the past decade. Powerful cartels control the trafficking of drugs from South America to the US. IN 2018 left-winger Andres Manuel López Obrador won an overwhelming victory in the July 2018 presidential election. He says his priorities are to tackle corruption and reverse decades of free-market economic policy - which he blames for social inequality, endemic violence, and the desire of so many young people to leave the country is search of a better life.

Regarding this project: There are few exhibition spaces focused on archival projects, which are also based on a de-colonial and feminist approach. With the project La Postal, Revista Terremoto proposes a space for emerging artists and researchers to postulate -through an open call- their projects, offering them also mobility to generate dialogues between different young voices throughout Latin America, on topics that have been little visible (sexual dissidence, women artists, sex work, migration, among others). These archives will be made available to a generation that has not lived that period as well as the art community and general public. ++Outputs++

Four exhibitions first two of which will be U nderland, an archive of independent and alternative cultures and U nder Fire, an archive that examines representations of historical conflicts, re-contextualizing materials on the interventions of the Ronald Reagan administration in Central America. Two more projects will be selected through a call for proposals.

A public program will be executed, consisting guided tours, talks, performance activations, etc..

++Outcomes++

Reconstruct documentarily different contexts of oppression around multiple marginal subjectivities (of sexual dissidence and migration) in Latin America in order to politicize its representation in front of a young public increasingly concerned with signifying the past.

To make visible the archival practices generated by young artists in the region and to position the exercise of archiving as an artistic practice in dialogue with the current contexts in which we live in Latin America.

Create a space to reflect on capitalist exploitation of the archive and instead construct an unauthorized experience of it through montage strategies aimed at generating proximity

++Impact++

Showing archives that have been unseen because of the nature of their content (sexual dissidence, women artists, sex work, migration etc.) will inform the interested public. young artists throughout Latin America, students in Mexico, art community