The Tlatelolco Cultural Center presents an exhibition by 22 artists that delves into the daily struggle of Mesoamerican populations against extractive projects, official apathy and organized crime. 22 artists from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and creators from southern Mexico participate in the exhibition.
Many of these artists have suffered violence and harassment that seeks to silence them, but also political persecution, displacement and exile. The destruction of the jungles of southern Mexico is one of the many nightmares denounced by the exhibition, open to the public from this week until September 8. The exhibition does not mince words and names these situations: “dictatorship without mercy,” it calls the Ortega regime, which has caused the artist Milena García, to leave the country without asylum, to explain the processes of displacement, transit and asylum. A “time of expectation that things will never change, that wait abroad that wait for things to change” is a crucial dimension in the process of displacement.