The Patronal Committee of the Image invited artists, creators, and individuals to participate in the collective art exhibition “Puerto en la Azotea,” which emerged as a response to the accelerated process of touristification and gentrification on the Oaxaca coast.
In its call for entries, it stated that Puerto Escondido is no longer hidden: “Today the sea is closer, but also more expensive, more privatized, and polluted.” It questions the question: if the sea is closer, why does it feel further away?
The collective exhibition will open on Saturday, April 25, 2025, at 4:00 pm on the rooftop of the Patronal Committee of the Image, located at 106 Privada de Guadalupe Victoria Street in the Libertad neighborhood of Oaxaca City.
The call remains open to artists working in different visual art formats such as photography, drawing, painting, installation, performance, video, textiles, or experimental formats.
The invitation is open to the general public to take ownership of the space and learn about the artistic proposals emerging in Oaxaca from the outskirts and decentralized areas; to artists to exhibit their pieces or join the bazaar and build community.
They also hope that the pieces in the exhibition will speak to territory, displacement, consumption, tourism, bodies, rest, precariousness, simulation, among other things.
“In the face of environmental, infrastructure, economic, and political difficulties, we take to the roof and make visible what is uncomfortable; we exhibit from where we can,” expressed the Patronal de la Imagen Committee.
The Central Art Bazaar will be held alongside the exhibition, bringing together Oaxacan artists whose work will be for sale. DJ sets by Proyecto Kabalistica and Chachalacos Experience will accompany the event.
“We’re open to receiving works, and we’re also looking to invite the general public to attend the exhibition,” he announced.
Source: es-us.noticias.yahoo
