The Guiding Thread. Stories in the Contemporary Art Collection
The Guiding Thread is a metaphor used to describe how the order of a text is articulated. It is a powerful image for understanding how the parts are linked and how attention is directed, while also referring to thinking of a text as a weaving or weft. Identifying the threads will eventually allow us to discover a structure, to unravel the skein.
This reflection, which is typical of theories of history and the analysis of narrative structures, puts on display the relationship between the facts and the ways in which they are told. By summoning it from the field of visual arts, we insist on the constant link between word and image, between visualities and discursivities: different forms of representation whose relationships are constantly reinvented in artistic practices.
Following these ideas, this exhibition gather works that focus on the ways in which narratives are constructed, or that address different versions of stories, either from fiction or in relation to controversial social situations. In the different works, there is a persistent interest in investigating the role of the experiences of the subjects in the face of the great narratives of power. At the same time, the tense relationship between fiction and reality is exhibited, as well as the role played by the different points of view from which it is narrated.
The Collections of Museo Amparo cover a broad spectrum of Mexico鈥檚 history, from the pre-Columbian period to our times. This selection, centered on the Contemporary Art Collection, brings together works from a wide diversity of languages to propose questions about our relationship with history and the ways of knowing. The intention is to mirror them with the broad narratives in conflict that characterize our present in order to think about their threads, to confront their plots.
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The Guiding Thread is a metaphor used to describe how the order of a text is articulated. It is a powerful image for understanding how the parts are linked and how attention is directed, while also referring to thinking of a text as a weaving or weft. Identifying the threads will eventually allow us to discover a structure, to unravel the skein.
This reflection, which is typical of theories of history and the analysis of narrative structures, puts on display the relationship between the facts and the ways in which they are told. By summoning it from the field of visual arts, we insist on the constant link between word and image, between visualities and discursivities: different forms of representation whose relationships are constantly reinvented in artistic practices.
Following these ideas, this exhibition gather works that focus on the ways in which narratives are constructed, or that address different versions of stories, either from fiction or in relation to controversial social situations. In the different works, there is a persistent interest in investigating the role of the experiences of the subjects in the face of the great narratives of power. At the same time, the tense relationship between fiction and reality is exhibited, as well as the role played by the different points of view from which it is narrated.
The Collections of Museo Amparo cover a broad spectrum of Mexico鈥檚 history, from the pre-Columbian period to our times. This selection, centered on the Contemporary Art Collection, brings together works from a wide diversity of languages to propose questions about our relationship with history and the ways of knowing. The intention is to mirror them with the broad narratives in conflict that characterize our present in order to think about their threads, to confront their plots.
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