Poetics pictured from a distance: ART/BANKNOTES/SHREDDED/
BANKNOTES/SHAVINGS/DESIGN
From March 18 to July 03, 2022

We invited 41 artists to participate in the fourth edition, providing them with framed sheets, shavings, and shreds from 200 and 500-peso banknotes from the G banknote family, asking them to produce pieces of art with free-form techniques and themes. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the exhibit was delayed. However, these works of art were created during the year 2020, making them testimonies to a historic occurrence that marked all our lives the world over, turning art into a long-distance medium for reflections, feelings, and mutual bonds.

The curatorship of this exhibit is divided into five sections which consider art’s capacity to connect dream and reality, unite distant worlds and link them collectively. Thus, in the mezzanine of the Banco de México Museum, we present Dialogues in Transformation, offering distinct artistic visions born in the present context, making art a way to process and transform current events.

In Cartographies of Affections, we exhibit maps and registries of trips that remind us of the importance of travel and interaction with geographic space. At the same time, the section Fertile Territory is comprised of figurative and abstract landscapes that transmit the value of nature and our bond with it.

Playful Narratives looks at the relationship between people created by games, movement, and interaction to construct communities and reinforce collective bonds. Finally, in Identifying Reflections, we find portraits that invite us to reflect on the strength of social bonds that mirror our cultural identity.

Participants in Poetics pictured from a distance: