"Oscar Cueto - Dibuja las vistas del cuerpo / Zeichne die Risse des Koerpers", unfolds like an infectious disease: drawings and videos spread through the Museum of Medicine in Mexico City, entering into dialogue individually or collectively with selected exhibition objects and their historical and social contexts. Again, sometimes overtly, sometimes subtly, they also confront the supposed credibility and universality of natural science, the museum as an institution where knowledge is defined, and the former Palace of the Inquisition, an institution of social control and power, where pathology becomes an art form. The colorful gouaches from the Las Manuelas series, together with the videos and large-format drawings selected for this exhibition, speak about history, about how it is unfolding now and how it may unfold, about colonialism, and about cultural transfers between what is called the Global North and the Global South. They address moments of translation, sexuality and intimacy, the body of others and one's own within a social, economic, and political context, and the entanglements to which these bodies are exposed in their mutual relation. Photo credits: Larissa Loza & Mario Ponton.
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