STILLS OF PEACE
AND EVERYDAY LIFE Ed.XI
Italy and Mexico: Global Humanity
JUL 6 – SEPT 8, 2024 / ATRI (TE) – PESCARA
CISTERNE DI PALAZZO ACQUAVIVA – ATRI
RUMBOS DE VIDA
FRANCIS ALYS, SARA LEGHISSA, FRANCISCO MATA ROSAS, MONICA MAYER, ROSA MARÍA ROBLES, FRANCISCO TOLEDO, ANTONIO TUROK, TEATRO OJO.
Curated by Giulia Palladini and Rodolfo Suárez Molnar
Project created in collaboration with UAM Fronteras.
“We teach girls and boys to speak the truth, which means, from their heart”. These now legendary words pronounced by Sub-commander Marcos, perhaps the most important Mexican poet of his generation, underlie the political vision on which the 1994 Zapatista revolt was founded: the guerrilla movement started in Chiapas exactly thirty years ago and it soon spread as a contagious element of political passion throughout the world. The Zapatista movement has made words and music, dance and celebration, integral parts of the arsenal of a fight that does not aim to impose a specific shape to the world, but to affirm that another world is possible: a world that contains all the others.
In a certain sense, this is the desire of the Rumbos de vida exhibition: to bring together under one roof works that reflect and take a position on crucial issues to the political and social history of contemporary Mexico, among these: forced disappearances, migrations, gender violence, but also political resistance. Taken together, both the works portrayed in the exhibition and the performative interventions that make up Rumbos de Vida, form a sort of song, always painful, but at the same time hopeful: it is the microcosm of the imagination in power, in this, these wounds are only a part of the shameful global history of infamy and oppression, which characterises all eras and transversely all nations.