Xalapa, Vir: By 2024, there will be surprises in… Xalapa Museum of Anthropology Max, the director of this facility, archaeologist and historian Alfredo Delgado Calderon.
Just a month and a half before the end of 2023, it announces that there will be news next year due to the reciprocity agreements that exist when loaning parts.
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Recall that since last June, some pieces have been loaned from the museum for display in China, where they will remain until June 2024.
It is reported soon that other pieces will go to the Montreal Museum in Canada, and others to the Los Angeles Museum in California.
“There will be reciprocity on some infrastructure issues, and in the case of Canada, since there are some rooms that will be practically empty, they will loan large-scale pieces from other cultures that are difficult to see in museums,” he added. She revealed in an interview.
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Although he did not go into further detail, he invited people to keep an eye on what is happening at Max, a space described as lively, with temporary exhibitions alongside the permanent exhibition.
What exhibition is currently located at the MAX Hotel?
“Shards of Vietnam”
To close 2023, after the exhibition Ritos, a figurative work inspired by the practices carried out in Catemaco, the works of Fernando Santiago will arrive in the temporary exhibition room.
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“Parts of Vietnam” is the proposal of a visual artist and filmmaker who describes himself as somewhere between visual arts and anthropology. The opening is scheduled for Thursday, November 16 at 7 p.m.
The artist claims to search for the meaning of Mexican identities through the materiality of Vietnam, a New Mexican bar in Guadalajara, Jalisco, where the words “soul”, “sound”, “mambo” and “krautrock” are heard.
Santiago says he studies the Vietnam strip as a system of signs through an ethnographic exercise, to find the construction of his image and the Mexican identity associated with it.
In the exhibition text, Maximiliano Souza Duran points out that this exhibition is “to prove that folklore is an empty sign, an anthropological fetish, and that the profound knowledge of Mexico dreamed of by John Kenneth Turner and Malcolm Lowry is the gaze of intellectuals.” Exotic and not the desire of the naive tourist.
The exhibition includes pieces ranging from a tissue holder or an illuminated sign of a place to its distinctive map on the floor of a room.
“Parts of Vietnam” will be at the MAX Temporary Exhibition Hall from November 16 to January 17, 2024, and can be visited from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday to Sunday.
