The exhibition Knowing the world with your mouth

FIC 2023: They present the world and Latin American art
'Knowing the world with your mouth, without being stung by thorns' presents the creations of 37 artists, which the Femsa Collection brings together in 41 pieces for the International Cervantino Festival.

The exhibition "Knowing the world with your mouth, without being stung by thorns" is an invitation to take several bites, chew and digest art through the creations of 37 artists, which the Femsa Collection brings together in 41 pieces for the International Festival Cervantine.

The exhibition is an intergenerational dialogue with Latin American artists that revolves around food and its relationship with art, and is exhibited at the Casa Diego Rivera Museum, in the capital of Guanajuato, from October 13 to February 18.

The curators of the exhibition, Beto Díaz Suárez and Dea López, seek to generate significant experiences from the arts with this montage, "we believe that this exhibition can have a series of significant dialogues or important experiences for the people who approach it," he said. Beto.
The inauguration will take place on Monday, October 16 at 5 pm, and takes place within the framework of the 51st edition of the FIC 2023 and the 45 years of the Femsa Collection.

We present a series of intergenerational dialogues, of people from different latitudes, we have artists from Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, and it was important for us to put the collection in dialogue within the framework of the 10 years of presenting consecutively at the Cervantino," he added.
Dea López, expert in artistic research and practice related to food, cook and co-curator of the exhibition, highlighted that the dialogues that led to selecting this exhibition arose from a more abstract understanding around food, which is not only about of putting food in our mouths, but of analyzing how we feed ourselves, who we feed, how we share, and where all these things that we put in our mouths come from.
In addition, for the curatorship, they drew a map of interest about food and its connection with the territory, with the people, with the ritual of food, among many other elements.

In this sense, they explained that in the exhibition there will be pieces that are very focused on territory, orality and memory; Others where the food is obvious or very subtle. All with the idea that each viewer approaches it from their own life experience.

Among the works you can find the work of Dulce Chacón who carried out a study on medicinal plants and botany, and like the works of Ana Gallardo and Jean Hendrix, which are in a similar dialogue, in that they do not expose an explicit relationship with food, but they weave a network that unites them.

The exhibition also has sound works, such as that of Vica Pacheco, an Oaxacan artist; Others even invite you to literally try art with edible works.

The curators highlighted that the exhibition accommodates very young contemporary artists who exhibit alongside others with great experience, such as Dr. Atl, whose "El Maizal (Milpa seca)" is exhibited, from 1955, a piece that began the Femsa Collection and is a heritage work.

There are also pieces by Remedios Varo, Francis Älys, Miriam Medrez, Antonio Henrique Amaral, Ana Mercedes Hoyos and Thomas Glassford.
As well as Aristeo Jiménez, Magdalena Fernández, Jan Hendrix, Manuel Álvarez Bravo and Gabriela Estrada, as well as the artist, sculptor and performer from Guanajuato, Gabriel Lengeling.

The hours to visit the exhibition are from Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., general admission is 25 pesos and students 10 pesos.