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Edible installation celebrating cultural diversity and diasporas who contribute to collective identity. This piece inspired by the Virgin of Guadalupe Tonántzin, symbol of miscegenation and pop icon in Latin American culture, explores the cultural and symbolic meaning of food creating a metaphor about the experience of immigration. The artwork is inspired in dessert recipes using ingredients that historically have detonated the movement of people around the glove, from Asia to Europe to the discovery of America and the constructions of modern nations. Tlecuatlahlope invites the viewer to a different aesthetic experience stimulating the senses with flavors and aromas of coffee, black pepper, vanilla, oranges and chocolate connecting the rituals of eating with collective identity.
Francisco Jose Guevara (Puebla, 1978) is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist and curator specialized in creating projects using contemporary art to promote Development, following to the United Nations' standards for human development. His experience covers international projects including: intangible heritage, public art, exhibits and visual arts education. He has promoted several international artistic exchange programs with Australia, Brazil, Ecuador, Hong Kong, Mexico, Paraguay, Spain and the United States. As an artist Guevara is especially known for creating edible sculptures, installations and performances exploring the symbolic meaning of food, the rituals of eating and human beings' ephemeral condition.
Guevara studied painting at the Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla (BUAP) and continued at the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico City. He began his curating/arts management career with a year of law studies at the Escuela Libre de Derecho (ELD) in Mexico City following with a semester of International Relations at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He received a University Expert title in Management and Planning of Development Cooperation Projects in the Fields of Education, Science and Culture at the Universidad Nacional de Estudios a Distancia (UNED) at Madrid, Spain, in coordination with the Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (OEI). He has promoted several international artistic exchange programs with Australia, Brazil, Ecuador, Hong Kong, Mexico,Paraguay, Spain and the USA.
As an artist he has had 20 solo shows and participated in multiple collective exhibits including the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City and the 10th Mexican Festival in Australia. His work can be found in important private and public collections such as: Colección Jumex, Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño es:Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño in Mexico City, Lila Downs Collection Mexico, Ministry of Culture of Bolivia, Salma Hayek Collection USA, and the Margrethe II Collection Denmark, among others.
In 2007 & 2008 the project he curated Campo Expandido VIII with Raymundo Sesma was awarded the AIA New Mexico Honor Award and the AIA Albuquerque Honor Award.
As of 2009, Guevara is the co-founder and Executive Director of Arquetopia, a non-profit conservatory and residency program for art and music in Puebla, Mexico.
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Edible installation inspired by festivities of light from Christmas, Hanukkah, Chaharshanbe Suri, Yule, etc., marked by the winter solstice which becomes present by the sun’s retreat in the sky. It is the time in which we gather to celebrate in communion the last light of the year. Adir Venaor, which means “immense and full of light”, addresses the theme of diasporas and celebrates “ignored” stories and traditions that are also part of “mestizaje”, from the converso Jews to the crypto-Muslims including the African presence in Mexico. The piece incorporates different symbols and representations of light with symbolic elements such as oil lamps, candles and ingredients that include oil, saffron, pistachios, rose water, aged cheese and dried fruits.
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