Devices for water bodies possessions

Mexican artist and curator Gustavo García Murrieta presents Device for Water Bodies Possession, a performance activated within The Xalapa Museum of Anthropology as a ritual intervention that proposes new ways of relating to cultural heritage. Through the body, water, and performative action, the artist approaches the museum’s archeological collection as objects that carry memory, energy, and living knowledge.

The work emerges from an iconographic research process on the traditional attire of ritual dancers from central and southern Veracruz, connecting with the region’s aquatic landscapes and feminine water archetypes that traverse pre-Hispanic, colonial, and contemporary imaginaries.

Device for Water Bodies Possession proposes queer approaches to anthropology, tradition, and decolonial thought within contemporary art practice questioning a world where the body is not the center but a channel; where water is not a resource but a deity; and where femininity participates actively in cosmology and anthropological practice.

Museo de Antropologia de Xalapa
Av. Xalapa s/n, Unidad Magisterial, 91017 Xalapa-Enríquez
Veracruz, México
Visiting hours: Tuesday to Sunday 9am - 17:00pm.

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