“Amoxtli Opaque Etymologies: Kaxtlolli Metzin” Exhibit at Xalapa Museum of Anthropology

• Is about Amoxtli Opaque Etymologies: Kaxtlolli Metzinauthored by Indra Arriaga Delgado
• It can be visited from June 15 to August 9, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday

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Photos: Courtesy Xalapa Museum of Anthropology

06/12/2023, Xalapa, Ver.- The Mezzanine Gallery of the Museum of Anthropology of Xalapa (MAX) of the Universidad Veracruzana (UV) will exhibit, from June 15 to August 9, Amoxtli Opaque etymologies: Kaxtlolli Metzinauthored by Indra Arriaga Delgado.

It is the result of a project developed over five years –in three languages, in two countries and with more than 30 collaborators– with the support of the Rasmuson Foundation Artistic Project Award in 2019; That same year he was accepted to be part of the United Nations (UN) International Year of Indigenous Languages, which includes dozens of projects from around the world.

Printing of one of the 15 pieces that will be exhibited in the MAX Mezzanine Gallery

The exhibition is made up of 15 prints that the artist made in Zongolica, which are accompanied by poems and the son The witch which he translated together with a group of teachers. Also, visitors will be able to browse and read the book that resulted from the project, as well as listen to its reading in three languages ​​(Spanish, Nahuatl and English).

Indra Arriaga affirmed that this project –which combines graphics and literature– is a personal narrative that pays homage to the land and the population that inhabits it, located between the Gulf of Mexico and the Sierra Madre Oriental, and that has the shape of a waning moon.

In her introduction to the book, Inupiat poet Joan Naviyuk Kane notes: “Opaque etymologies denote an emotional drive for originality, linguistically, while also acknowledging the physical quality of the landscape and its reference to humans in terms of our room in it.”

The exhibition will be on MAX until August 9, it can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.