Gestures and Objects. Design and Ritualism
Curator: José Antonio Sada Sánchez Mejorada
From June 7th to October 27th, 2024
In the nineteenth century, studies of ritualism and myth were subordinated to the notion of the sacred in communal and individual practice. It was only in the twentieth century that anthropology, sociology, and psychology would discover that ritual acts also operate alongside religious practice, thereby demonstrating that, in both secular and civil contexts, ritual constitutes a situational activity made up of intentional human actions capable of transforming persons, spaces, and the materiality of objects, as well as their uses and meanings. Thus, every ritual practice implies the movement, the dis-articulation, of each one of its parts.
The exhibition Gestures and Objects. Design and Ritualism explores the formal, symbolic, performative, regulatory, and invariant characteristics of ritual activity, as seen in pieces ranging from utensils for eating to miniature altars and musical instruments, in order to show how it is not a static process, and that its evolution involves the redesign and innovation of objects, services, and experiences that can be constantly updated, in the manner of an endlessly changeable rhizome.
The exhibition is a dialogue involving art, design, photography, and ethnography, in which we attempt to bring out the vitality of ritual and its connection with daily life through the use and movement of everyday objects.
Acoocooro
Omar Chávez Santiago
Colores del Suelo
Cosa Buena Studio
Daniel Couttolenc
Adriana David Ortíz Monasterio
De la O Studio
Estudio Sada
Marta Fernandez Calvo
Ana Hernández
Mónica Iturribarría Portillo
Rosa Lamotte
Lorena Lazard
Cecilia León de la Barra
Gabriela Martínez
Mimo Studio
Oro de Monte Albán
Liliana Ovalle
Diego Pérez Bautista
Bulmaro Pérez Mendoza
Eduardo Rivera Martín del Campo
Rufina Ruíz López
Sagrada
Ricardo Santiago Pacheco
Studio Payet
Taller Raúl Porras y familia
Hernán Vargas
Manuel Zúñiga
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