Dios Nunca Muere

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Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

The visual politics of transmutation in contemporary Oaxacan art.
Featuring:
José Arnaud Bello | Alfonso Barranco Sánchez | Ana Belén Paizanni | Arian Dylan | Moisés García Nava
Joel Gómez | Mariana Gullco | Daniel Guzmán | Luis Hampshire | Saúl Hernández | Dr. Lakra | Morelos León Celis
Roberto López Flores | Saúl López Velarde | Rolando Martínez | Rosa Vallejo | Jessica Wozny

Deluge Contemporary Art and Open Space are proud to present Dios Nunca Muere: the visual politics of transmutation in contemporary Oaxacan art. Featuring the work of 17 artists from the region, the exhibition is notable for the presentation
of established artists with celebrated international reputations (Daniel Guzman, Dr. Lakra) with a younger generation of emerging and mid-career artists, the majority of whom have not exhibited in Canada.

Dios Nunca Muere explores the seismic shift in contemporary art practice in Oaxaca, Mexico over the last two decades. The work of these artists—both individually and collectively—parallels and reflects widespread social, political and economic changes in the region. Informed by such social and material conditions, this new wave of artist/provocateurs is dismantling the prevailing hegemony of the Romantic artist/auteur in favour of collaborative approaches, social practice and self-examination. As they embrace the area’s unique geographical isolation and historical reputation as a ground zero for resistance, transformation and revelation, the artists in this exhibition do so through an international perspective and
critical dialogue with the art world at large.

Curated by Luis Hampshire (Oaxaca) and Deborah de Boer (Victoria), Dios Nunca Muere is the fi rst exhibition of its kind
to engage with an enormously vital, sporadically recognised, but generally unheralded group of artists in order to provide
a unique and immersive experience of a vitally important but virtually occult chapter in the contemporary art history of
Mexico.

Dios Nunca Muere is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue with essays from both Mexican and Canadian contributors.

Deluge Contemporary Art | 636 Yates Street, 250 385 3327, www.deluge.ws
Open Space | 510 Fort Street, 250 383 8833, www.openspace.ca