Desplazamiento de economías sentimentales
Oil and natural resins on canvas, 2023
120 x 213 x 4 cm
From the Tropical Paradises series.
Inspired by the plastic vocabulary and geometric compositions of the French Surrealist painter Yves Laloy (1920-1999), this series of landscapes presents a paradoxical tension between the classical representation of the «tropical paradise» that corresponds to the multiple episodes of colonization and the “Cosmovisions» of the indigenous peoples of those colonized tropical paradises. Laloy’s paintings, particularly influenced by North American Navajo art and spirituality, were the starting point for a pictorial dialogue with my own research into the art and Cosmovision of the Wirrarika culture of central Mexico.
The landscape “Desplazamiento de Economías Sentimentales” is derived from and echoes a body of work called “el primero que ría ”** in which an artistic-ethnographic exploration is developed with a group of windshield wipers from the municipality of Iztapalapa, Mexico City. The image represented in the painting places us at the foot of what was once the Xaltepec Volcano, which today is a hybrid terrain between the urban expansion and the rural zone of the periphery of the municipality of Iztapalapa. In this location, where the Cempazuchitl (Day of the Dead flower) blooms annually, the activities of the mining industry contrast sharply against the landscape.
As in all the paintings of this series, a situation of homage to the rituals and practices of ancestral Cosmovisions is presented.
** Learn more:
https://mauriciolimon.com/buscando-la-sombra-del-arbol-looking-for-the-shade-of-the-tree/
https://mauriciolimon.com/promesa-prohibida-promise-prohibited/