WHAT IS AQUÍ Y ALLÁ: The Right to Belong

More than 40 multidisciplinary artists from the United States and Mexico will come together this fall for Aquí y Allá: El Derecho de Pertenecer (Here and There: The Right to Belong), a binational exhibition and cultural festival opening Wednesday, October 7 at 5:00 PM at Foro Indie Rocks! Gallery in Mexico City.

Curated by Dr. Martina Ayala, the first annual Aquí y Allá creates a cross-border cultural space for artists whose work emerges from experiences of migration, diaspora, displacement, deportation, return, memory, identity and the ongoing search for belonging.

Running October 7 through November 22, the exhibition brings together visual art, film and video, music, theater, dance, literature, poetry, performance, fashion, oral history and community dialogue. Weekly public programs and special events will be announced soon.

ART, MEMORY AND CULTURE IN MOTION

Aquí y Allá places historic and contemporary Chicano/a/e experiences in dialogue with Mexican and Latin American artists and with creators whose lives and practices have been shaped by migration, immigration, deportation, return and transnational identity. The project also makes space for migrant, immigrant, Indigenous, Afro-Latino/a/e, Caribbean and diasporic perspectives.

Rather than treating migration solely as movement from one country to another, the exhibition asks what people carry across borders: language, family histories, traditions, music, spirituality, resistance, memory and cultural knowledge. Continue reading →