Performatic reading for the exhibition No-objetualismos with artist Alejandra R Bolaños
Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Format: In-person
Location: Sala A
Free admission with prior registration
No-objetualismos. Hacia un pensamiento visual independiente
In 1972, the term “no-objetualismo” appeared for the first time in the public sphere. The Peruvian critic Juan Acha, who had self-exiled in Mexico City since the end of April, published in November one of his columns in the cultural supplement Diorama of the newspaper Excélsior, giving light to the idea of the non-objectual. Since his last years in Peru, he had been trying to point out the changes in the visual arts following a process of radicalization that sought to break the structures of modernity within the artistic and social reality of Latin America. This attempt to define a complex amalgam of experiences — which at the time were grouped under the sign of the avant-garde — was the starting point so that, throughout the decade, the appearances of no-objetualismo occurred in a modulation with different debates on the artistic scene of the region.
About Alejandra R Bolaños
She is primarily a visual artist, but has also been part of radio collectives, artistic-educational groups, and interdisciplinary independent spaces. Her work is deeply influenced by the idea of humidity in archives, manifesting in drawings, texts, radio programs, and collaborative and community projects. She has collaborated with various contemporary art collections in Mexico as a researcher and cataloger, notably serving as coordinator of the Documentation Center at Museo Tamayo in 2018.
She is interested in the recent history of social movements in southeastern Mexico and their connection to the arts, as well as in experimentation with pedagogical and curatorial exercises centered on practices of regeneration, memory, and self-history. In the curatorial field, her interest has focused especially on practices of performance, community, and memory.
Since 2020, she has been developing Mundo Sabana, an itinerant radio that travels the Gulf of Mexico in search of pirate stories and local legends through multiple collaborations. Her final project aims to explore the entire coastline of the gulf, from the Yucatán Peninsula to Florida. She is a member of Despatriarcalizar el Archivo and co-founder of Bruma Laboratoria, a collective dedicated to the study and production of art forms related to self-preservation in Veracruz. In 2023, she founded, along with librarian Catalina Pérez and performing artist Bawixtabay Torres, the Archivo de la Humedad, a documentary collection on contemporary art in the state of Veracruz.
She has been invited to participate in Archivos del Común V, organized by the Red de Conceptualismos del Sur and the Museo Reina Sofía (2023), and in Camp – Arts Educators in Residence at documenta fifteen (2022). She is also part of la secueLA, a school of care driven by Lugar a Dudas, TEOR/éTica, and Capacete (2024).