Satellite Gallery and Access Gallery co-present Mexican curator and CCST candidate Adriana Estrada Centelles’ group exhibi tion Broken Borders.
The exhibition reflects on the sociopol itical situation that has affected Mexico and more recently other countries \, such as Canada and the United States\, for the past six years—the drug w ar. This war has resulted in more than 40\,000 deaths in Mexico and has shi fted the everyday lives of Mexicans into a permanent state of alert\, uncer tainty and terror. Teresa Margolles\, Rosa María Robles\, Marcos Ramírez Er re and Jorge Malacón have depicted\, through their work\, some of the mecha nisms of this war that refer to a more complex and global political structu re. They unveil the drug war as a war machine and a new power structure of necropolitics.
Broken Borders is divided and presented in tw o spaces\, the Satellite Gallery and Access Gallery. The main purpose is to raise awareness of this complex and global war\, not only as Mexico’s soci al and political problem\, but also as a worldwide economic model that affe cts all societies\, including Canada. In order to experience the entire exh ibition\, the public will move from one gallery to another and will have th e opportunity to engage differently with the streets of Vancouver’s Downtow n Eastside. Drug trafficking and consumption is a constant and evident prob lem in this area of the city. Without any prejudice against illegal drug co nsumption\, the exhibition opens up spaces of reflection on the public’s (i n)direct participation that feeds violence and strengthens the expansion of the war on drugs.
Teresa Margolles is an artist bas ed in Mexico City. Since she joined the collective SEMEFO\, derived from Me xico’s Medical Forensic Service\, she uses the morgue as her atelier and wo rks only with the bodies of those who suffered a violent death\, in order t o rescue them from invisibility. The victims’ anonymity is a result of inhu man relationships in modern overcrowded societies.
Rosa María Robles is a Culiacán-based artist. Her work reflects on violence\ , power\, impunity and drug-trafficking subculture—narcocultura. Robles tra nsports a social problem into the core of aesthetic perception by bringing violence into the realm of art\; beauty and the sublime are abruptly substi tuted with all that is terrible and wretched.
Marcos Ramírez Erre is a Tijuana-based artist. Located on the US-Mexico border\, Erre explores the role of history\, communication\, economics and militaris m in the development of cultural stereotypes in border-control policies and situations of conflict. Erre points out the polarities of border communiti es\, criticism of political injustice and global disinformation.
This exhibition was made possible through the support of the Michael O’Brian Family Foundation\, the Killy Foundation and the Audain Endowment for Curatorial Studies through the Department of Art History\, Visual Art a nd Theory in collaboration with the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia.
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