POCOAPOCO is pleased to present works by eight Oaxacan multidisciplinary artists whose varying mediums and perspectives demonstrate the critical and widespread presence of printmaking in Oaxaca. Utilizing print as an opportunity to unite their practice and voice, the artists in this exhibition connect around a shared desire to critique and communicate the rapid transformations of their territory, city, and home. Que Conste / For the Record challenges the limits of the medium stemming from possibilities provided by language, playing with the translation and definitions of print from English (printmaking - an artistic process) to Spanish (grabado - recorded or engraved). Based in Oaxaca’s comprehensive, historical and often quite fluid relationship to the discipline, this exhibition allows artists and viewers alike to reexamine their relationship to the practice of printmaking, in which grabado es un punto de encuentro (a meeting point), un recurso (a resource), una forma de repetición (a form of repetition) una comunidad (a community) la tradición (the tradition), una registro (a recording) un punto de acceso (an access point) una traducción (a translation) una lengua en común (a common language) y una voz compartida (and a shared voice).
Join us for the opening reception!
Friday, June 17th, 2022
7 - 9pm
This exhibition features work by the following artists:
Ana Hernández
Ana Hernández is a visual artist from the Isthmus region of Oaxaca. Her work reflects the knowledge inherited from the women in her family and her community and uses traditional techniques such as weaving and embroidery to discuss issues that have been present throughout the artist’s life such as migration, the loss of native languages, and the passing down of traditional knowledge from generation to generation. By using materials such as gold leaf, natural fibers and clay, Hernández expands the plastic and discursive possibilities of the popular trades of her land that have fallen into disuse. @hernandez.ana.hernandez
Adriana Monterrubio
Adriana Monterrubio is a textile artist whose practice focuses on working with leather, natural fibers and natural dyes as her main creative medium. Her process emulates the physicality of the material. She works with her body, her hands and her mind to transform the material into shapes and objects inspired by memory. Her sculptures seek to connect intimately with the space and the viewer by creating a personal language through which she evokes memories of her hometown. Monterrubio has participated in group exhibitions in museums around Mexico and her work is part of the collection of the Textile Museum in Oaxaca. @adriana.monterrubio
Evelyn Méndez Maldonado
Evelyn Méndez Maldonado is a dancer, performer, cultural manager, and producer from Oaxaca City. She has traveled the path of interpretation, creation and collaboration in contemporary dance and performance since 2009. Without institutional training, Oaxaca has been her school. Movement exploration in-situ is one of her deepest interests, same as collaborating with artists from all different disciplines open to establishing a dialogue with movement. She produces and directs the performing arts biennial Casa Abierta. @evelyn_m_maldonado
José Ángel Santiago
José Ángel Santiago is a Oaxacan artist originally from the Isthmus, pushes and questions the limits between drawing and painting. His interest in astronomy is predominant in his work, particularly in drawing, as well as his intimate relationship to land, nature, and the endemic animals of the Isthmus. In addition to paper and canvas, José Ángel uses wood panels, fresco, and ceramics to create pieces that address issues of identity, memory, and belonging through the use of symbols and characters in his work. He also reflects on the role of the native languages and local traditions as an element of identity within a society crossed by global issues. @joseangelsantiago
Martha Alicia Jiménez Sánchez
Martha Alicia Jiménez Sánchez is a ceramic artist working with sculpture, installation, and ritual practice. In her work she reflects on language, healing, beauty, brokenness and repair. Through clay and movement, she seeks to reconnect with her body as a woman and as a mother. She works with local clay that she and her son collect on a sacred site in Santa Cruz Papalutla, the town where they live. She hand-builds all her pieces and fires them using a traditional local method of low temperature firing. Her work has been exhibited in Oaxaca, Mexico City, New York, and San Francisco. @mujer_barro
Marco Antonio Velasco Martínez
Marco Antonio Velasco Martínez (artist-in-residence) is an artist, printmaker and educator. Born and raised in Oaxaca, he is the co-founder of Espacio Pino Suárez, a printmaking workshop and space for visual arts and is a member of Estudios Benito Juárez, a group investigating and discussing contemporary art in Oaxaca. He is interested in understanding and expanding the concept of drawing as an exercise in observation, recognition, memory, writing and as an object, working with issues such as violence, the political and the personal, collective creation and his relationship with everyday objects. Marco studied design, drawing and graphics at the Mesoamerican University, at the Centro de Artes de San Agustín Etla, Oaxaca and at the Faculty of Arts and Design at UNAM. His work has been exhibited in Mexico, Austria, Italy and the United States. @marco_velascomartinez
Santiago Rojo
Through sculpture, drawing, and photography, Santiago's work addresses the ways in which art can detonate knowledge about issues related to urban space and its transformations. Through field exploration and observation of the landscape, he generates pieces of subjective interpretation that highlight the changes in the economic, social, and political processes of a place. His work has been exhibited in different spaces in Mexico and in countries such as Brazil, Ecuador, the United States, Lebanon and Venezuela. It is part of the collection of the Museum of Philately of the city of Oaxaca (MUFI), the FEMSA collection and the Toledo / INBA collection. @santiago_rojog
Yatiní Domínguez
Yatiní Domínguez (artist-in-residence) is a visual and performing artist originally from Oaxaca de Juárez. She is co-founder of “Ojo Tres” a workshop creating ties between artists through graphic, photographic and editorial production. Ojo Tres is a member of MUTACIONES editorial -- a platform for creation and dissemination of the work of women artists. She collaborates in various multidisciplinary projects mixing illustration, graphics, audiovisual and dance. Her work investigates memory and boundary, exploring the relationship between image and movement and our human footprint, the way we move and the traces we leave. @yati_nii