Title: Museo Arte Contemporáneo de Ecatepec
Description: Museo Arte Contemporáneo Ecatepec (MArCE) is a collective that emerged in 2015 with the aim of bringing together the concerns of managers, artists, activists and the local public that identified the lack of a nearby space for the dissemination of contemporary art and the discussion of tensions between the center and the periphery. In its origins, the MARCE thought of itself as a museum fiction that ironized the figure of the institution and introduced a critique of the aesthetic modes of production and circulation in hegemonic spaces. Art historian Tonatiuh López is one of the people running the Museo Arte Contemporáneo Ecatepec (MArCE) , a museum without walls, a community project that acts through art to be able to generate changes and make an impact on the community, such as the the project Toco maderaʺ they went out onto the streets with a tamales cart to garner the concerns of the people of Santa Clara Coatitla  the region of Ecatepec in which the museum carries out its activity.
Subjects: Exhibitions, Art, History, Art and society, Museo Arte Contemporáneo Ecatepec (Group)
Places: Mexico, Ecatepec (Mexico), Ecatepec (Mexico, Mexico)
Time periods: 21st century