Oaxaca de Juárez.- Workers of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca (MACO) invited the general public through social networks to share photos taken during any of the activities or exhibitions held at the venue, within the framework of the International Museum Day.
“Let’s celebrate, let’s also recognize all those essential elements that are part of the construction of museums and their proposals: their collections, their workers, their collaborations with artists, curators, critics, writers,” the workers posted on the official Facebook page from the museum.
In the publication, it is detailed that any photo will be received, regardless of whether it was taken in the exhibition rooms or in any of the patios that are part of the facilities of the Museum.
“For the museum project of the MACO led by director Cecilia Mingüer, always in search of inclusion and openness to other ways of thinking and creating, from the various discourses of contemporary art, the ancestral practices of our communities, activism, etc., have been part of the consolidation of the MACO as an important forum for the dissemination of ideas ”, they explained.
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In the statement, the signatories remarked that the museum has been closed for more than a month, after being violently removed by unknown persons, without the corresponding eviction order, after receiving a series of threats from the association MACO Friends.
“The violence, misogyny and pride of the civil association Friends of the MACO go clearly against the vocation of our beloved MACO. Rubén Leyva, José Luis Bustamante del Valle and Mayella Audelo do not represent us, they will never be able to understand the humanistic principles of culture and art ”, the workers declared in the statement published this Tuesday.
Last Friday, the collective Oaxaca Woman Art (Armo) He demanded the return of his work, which was part of the exhibition “Principle for the celestial revolution: solve et coagula”, on the days when the eviction took place, and which was frozen in the museum.
“As a group, we are extremely outraged by the lack of respect for our work and we consider the closure and eviction of acts totally unethical, and violating the human rights of both the workers and ourselves,” said the artists in a statement released by social networks.
Workers demand the payment of wages of at least one year for 11 of them, which is why they hold peaceful protests outside the museum, with the participation of artists and citizens.
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