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