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Text and photos by Anashely Elizondo / @anashely_elizondo
“Hydrodystopias or towards an aquatic corpo-communal experience” is the exhibition that the artist Valeria Michelle presents within the walls of “Espacio Cabeza”.
This exploration, as she calls it, immerses itself in the waters of the Santiago River (one of the most contaminated environmental contexts in the country due to anthropogenic and industrial activity) and Lake Chapala, observing the flora that lies in those waters and that, despite not being endemic, they remain and survive.
In this installation, The artist uses fish tanks of different types to make that logic reference between human beings and their “power” to control life. In them lie lilies, water lettuce, “umbrellas”, water lentils and other species.
Michelle, reaffirms how “biopower” It is a necessary concept to understand water pollution.
Several drawings placed in the room, which are extracted from an image taken from a microscope, refer to the different forms of life and the colors that are clearly visible in bodies of water, going from the general to the particular, The artist seeks the complete immersion of the viewer in this aquatic and necessary investigation.
It is not the first time that the artist has made these artistic and scientific explorations with the vital element, for her, curiosity, from a more “childish” terrain to one that is more conscious and present, have led her to ask questions about water, which she can (or cannot) resolve through observation and dialogue, two things present in “Hydrodystopias or towards an aquatic corpo-communal experience.”
This exhibition is a must-see for curious people, nature and art lovers, you can enjoy it for free from January 31 to March 16 of this year at Espacio Cabeza, located at Simón Bolívar No. 181, Col. Americana in Guadalajara, Jalisco.
2024-02-07 03:54:04
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