La tonia / The Tone

Long before the arrival of Hernn Corts, birds, serpents, the sun and moon, and human sacrifices figured prominently in the rituals and daily spiritual life of the inhabitants of todays Mexico. In the early sixteenth century, Roman Catholic missionaries began arriving in the area of TenochtitlanMexico Cityto convert the native Mexica to Christianity. The priests met with limited success until 1531, the year Juan Diego, a poor Mexica, first encountered the vision of the Heavenly Lady, now known as Our Lady of Guadalupe.Guadalupe is a lavishly illustrated history of Mexico's religious...

Lo falso y lo original conviven en desigual pero en continua relación desde los orígenes de nuestra cultura. En cierto modo, mantienen una relación de dependencia parecida a la del otro con el yo, o similar a encontrarse ante un juego de espejos. Durante muchos años, hacia lo considerado literatura falsa, se ha tenido una mirada negativa que la asimilaba al delito, de modo que términos como plagio, falsificación, fraude y otros tienen principalmente acepción legal, y desde esta perspectiva se han hecho bastantes acercamientos a una realidad compleja cuyo territorio resulta difícil...

From the beginning of the sixties, Mary Kelly's works have dealth with the muddle of the language and its cultural and psychological impact. Her narrative installations question the traditional explanations of the daily life. The project The ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi comes up in 1999 after reading a piece of news published in a daily in Los Angeles, a report relating the story of Kastriot, an Albanian boy whose mother left for dead during the war in Kosovo, being rescued alive by the Serbians afterwards to meet his parents later on in good health. Based on these facts, Mary Kelly made this...

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