Title: Sublevaciones
Description: "Uprising" is a transdisciplinary exposition about collective emotions and political events insofar as they involve mass movements in struggle. It is then about the social disorders, the political agitations, the insubordinations, the revolts, the agitations and the revolutions, of all kinds held at MUAC 24 de febrero al 29 de julio 2018. The project is based on a historical and theoretical work that Georges Didi-Huberman (France 1953), philosopher and historian of art, who has been doing for years, mainly through the series of books entitled L'oeil de l'histoire (The Eye of History), that in their last deliveries face the question by the representation of the towns in the aesthetic and political sense of the word representation. The figure of the uprising is presented through more than 250 works including manuscripts, documents, paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and films, to show how artists have addressed these issues at different historical moments. The exhibition route follows a sensitive and intuitive path in which the view can be focused on concrete examples across five areas: Elements (unchained); Gestures (intense); Words (exclaimed); Conflicts (lit); and Desires (indestructible). The exhibition Soulèvementsʺ has been organized by the Jeu de Paume of Paris and its itinerancy included the MUNTREF Museum of the National University of Tres de Febrero (Argentina); Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona; the MUAC - Contemporary Art University Museum - UNAM, Mexico; the Galerie de l'UQAM - University of Quebec in Montreal and SESC São Paulo. This project is reissued in each roaming venue with distinct catalogues, Didi-Huberman integrated local works in this exhibition that include different disciplines such as photography, drawing, video and installation. Among them: The manifestos in Nahuatl by Emiliano Zapata, The manifesto Estridentista, a photo by Barros Sierra in the demonstration for the autonomy of the university in 68, The Papalotes of the 43 disappeared students of Francisco Toledo, The Comandante Esther speaking in the Chamber of Deputies and Senators, and work by Graciela Iturbide, Tercerunquinto, Vicente Razo, Silvia Gruner, No Group, Ulises Carrión, Javier Téllez, Francis Alÿs, among others.
Subjects: Dissident art, Exhibitions, Demonstrations in art, Revolutions in art, Art, Art and revolutions, Social conflict in art, Modern Art, Political aspects, Demonstrations, Revolutions
Time periods: 20th century, 21st century