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Aurora Pellizzi: Gorgona
On view through May 2024
MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey
Nuevo León, Monterrey
www.marco.org.mx

“Gorgona” represents a syncretism of knowledge and ancestral techniques through the production of the loom, which the artist recovers in a contemporary proposal to question current concerns about one of the inequalities that the female gender has carried for centuries: the rejection of the empowerment of woman in representation.

The works created especially for this call will be exhibited for the first time. The works created especially for this call will be exhibited for the first time and their venue will be MARCO, under the curatorship of Taiyana Pimentel, director of the Museum.

[Image: Aurora Pellizzi, Gorgona. Wool dyed with cochineal woven on maguey fiber canvas. Courtesy Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MARCO) and the artist.]