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RITUAL OF MYTH MAKING: RECLAIM
March 15, 2023
Exhibition catalogue
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Curated by: Katherin Canton & Mariana Moscoso. Exhibition Dates: Feb 10– Mar 20, 2023. Ritual of Myth Making: Reclaim is an invitation to participate in ceremony. The exhibition will take viewers on a journey through time and space, exploring multiple Indigenous pasts, presents, and futures, resulting in a collective cycle of healing that embraces beauty, death, release, and abundance. Read more: https://rootdivision.org/exhibition/the-ritual-of-myth-making-reclaim/
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SF/ARTS CURATOR INSIGHT
February 10, 2023
In one of Sean Guerra's brightly colored graphic illustrations, a figure in an elaborate head dress appears to speak a flower into existence, illustrating the power of myth to evoke the past and conjure the future. Similar vivid red and blue patterns adorn Rusby Marisol Tum Xinico's intricate weavings, which remind us of patterns and practices passed hand to hand over millennia. Polaris Castillo's mixed media collage of skeletons caught in a lovers' embrace has the pink purple tinge of hallucination, while Alvaro Tzaj Yotz's oil on canvas juxtaposition of a smiling woman with a rattle snake feels like it has emerged directly from a dream. Perhaps the birds once embroidered on her white blouse have come to life, now free to fly out of her chest and into the beyond. Conceived as a ritualistic journey, this exhibition is full of the fantastic, combining Indigenous art practice with imaginative storytelling to summon change for the self, the community, and the culture.