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Nahum B. Zenil (Online exhibition)

Online4 January 2021 - 31 March 2021
Nahum B. Zenil (Online exhibition)

Nahum B. Zenil (Online exhibition)

19 January 2021

Closes: 31 March 2021

Silence is the backbone of all my work, stated Nahum B. Zenil in 1995.The mutest sound, and at the same time, the noisiest one, becomes the bone structure of a pictorial and literary work that has marked an iconographic milestone in the Mexican art scene. Silence becomes present when we name it. And through creation, we materialize what we did not think exists. How do we call what we have not yet named? Through art.

Zenil's subject matter and iconographies are interconnected. There is no reading of his figuration in isolation from national identity, religion, family, and sexuality.

His work weaves threads that connect his being and his identity to the place and culture where he grew up. Zenil's work manages to connect a kind of unity or identity shaped by the trinity of the nation, religion, and homosexual desire.

https://www.mexicanmuseum.org/nahum-zenil

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