Tercerunquinto

Overview

"MALA MEMORIA" (2013), is a concrete wall with this same phrase, which translates in English to “Poor Memory,” carved into it by Mexican migrant workers. According to curator Andrea Karnes, the piece “is suggests an imperfect or hazy memory, or an inadequate ability to retain past information related to history and personal experience. For the artists, the phrase connects on one level to the history of the United States (specifically Texas) and Mexico.

In this way, it comments on the geopolitical memory of the two countries and the territorial and political conflicts that have arisen since the late eighteenth century and up to the present day.

The slightly ambiguous message activates institutional, urban, artistic, municipal, territorial, political, emigrant, and personal interrogation” (México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990).

Curator: Andrea Karnes