Time In Things II: Contemporary... | Exhibitions

Time In Things II: Contemporary Art Galleries

Museo Amparo

Puebla | Mexico

Sep 14, 2022 - Dec 31, 2023

Our lives are anchored in the passage of time. Its apparent direction, determined by unique events in a sequential, progressive, and linear manner still involves the cycles of nature and the cosmos. The essential states of ideas and things are immanent in time, and though they may be defined and differentiated by their geography, politics, and culture, they are indefinitely recurrent.

This exhibition features diverse perspectives about issues that have been current over time, expressed through works that form part of the Museo Amparo鈥檚 Pre-Columbian and Contemporary Art Collections. Here, images and objects refer to one another, comparing and contrasting referents from different periods鈥攁nd in the case of some works, involving diverse fields鈥攚hile looking for similarities and connections that indicate the changing principles upon which knowledge is built.

The works that make up this first exhibition rotation are fragments of given situations, clues that lead us to different scenarios and contexts of the past and the present crystallized in the collective imagination. Each section presents iterations of four central motifs: time, territory, the forces of nature, and human drives. These concepts are intertwined with discourses that examine issues and ideas dealing with the impact of the overexploitation of natural and cultural resources; the notion of death and renewal; the territory as an open field or as a setting determined by the dynamics of power and violence; imageries based on culture, nature or entelechy; the boundaries that constrain what is formless, or a hallucination; challenges that go against the grain of official history. Latent questions within these fragments, affirm the fact that the past does not go away, and neither does the present鈥攊nstead, they become cumulative and affect one another.