Náa’ Reza [Broken Hand]: : A Conversation with Ana Hernández
Join us for a conversation with Oaxacan artist Ana Hernández, the current Hyde Park Art Center’s Jackman Goldwasser Resident. Hernández will give a presentation on her latest exhibition, Náa’ Reza [Broken Hand], currently on view at the Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City.
The artworks featured in the exhibition include video, performance, installation, and printmaking, and center around the tradition of the comixcal, a large, round clay pot used daily in the kitchens of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Hernández will describe how she combines traditional techniques with contemporary expressions, questioning how we inhabit the land, to whom it belongs, what resources we extract from it, and how it affects us through what we eat.
Following her presentation, Hernández will be joined by Mexico City-based curator and writer Esteban King Álvarez and Chicago-based researcher Andrea Reed-Leal for a conversation discussing the exhibition and the artist’s role in addressing contemporary issues around food sovereignty, our approach to technology, and the cultural relationships to food and the land in Mexico.
A reception will follow, sponsored by the Consulate General of Mexico in Chicago.
This event is presented in partnership with the National Museum of Mexican Art and the Consulate General of Mexico in Chicago. It is partly supported through a partnership residency at Hyde Park Art Center.
This conversation will be in Spanish. A live English translation sponsored by Interprenet will be available for audience members.