Alejandro Zertuche
Mexico
Alejandro Zertuche (Monterrey, MX, 1989) Born in a blue Citation at the intersection of Gonzalitos and Enrique C. Livas, on the last day of the 1980s, defined by movement, constant change and a self-pronounced Chaos Magician, he works from a autobiographical standpoint veiled by individual studies on occultism, rituals and different magical traditions, which he manifests mainly in action based projects, allowing himself to experience different media such as video, installation and sound.
His work has been presented in museums, institutions and independent art spaces in more than 25 countries, including Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (Iran), Sofia Arsenal - Museum for Contemporary Art (Bulgaria), Galeria Raczej (Poland) Lugar a Dudas (Colombia) , Museo Altillo Beni (Bolivia) and Grace Exhibition Space (USA).
He has done residencies in Spain, Italy, Bulgaria and Mexico and was a fellow of the Young Creators program 2016-2017 at Mexico's National Fund for Culture and the Arts, also being a recipient of PIDAC (2016) and FINANCIARTE (2018 and 2021) from CONARTE.
https://cargocollective.com/azertuche
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Response to the question:
Remembering is of course a process which starts with the act of letting go, because what is it that we want to remember? an old practice, a person or even ourselves? Remembering resembles a resurrection, a come back, it becomes a necessity to unlearn, to embrace connections that were probably already there but we weren’t allowed to access. Like a deja vú, is it fate? Is it something within ourselves that wants to come out? is it freedom?
Remembering can become an art, a magic pass, a confrontation, for it is undoubtedly something we might not want to do entirely.
Maybe remembering does not have anything to do with memory or time, but with a sensation of closeness, with intimacy, vulnerability, something primal which we want back.
A spiral that traps us but which we can get to be comfortable in.
The most feasible way to predict the future is to create it
[ I used the symbol of the golden rope as the life threads of destiny, in which by holding it and controlling it myself, I would weave my own timeline, as an extension of the body, to untie, to extend, to comprehend and pass through the complexity of today’s world, as a thread through a needle head, carefully, slowly and precise.]
“POSILLIPO (A CONTRACT)”
encounters -not coincidences- arise,
to show us “to remember us” that we’re on the right track
A PROTECTOR
3 SINGING SIRENS
9 BLUE ROSES
A SACRIFICE
A CONTRACT WITH OLOKUN
A GOLDEN ROPE
A RHYTHM WITH 8 BLACK SHELLS AND 1 WHITE WOODEN BALL
AN INVOCATION
AN EXCHANGE
TO LET GO, TO BECOME ANEW, TO GAIN ABUNDANCE, TO BIND DISPERSE ENERGY, TO DISAPPEAR.
“SCAR MAPS (ORACLE)”
to come by and acknowledge events, encounters and life itself as a divination process, to
seek hidden wisdom in its shadows. Star maps as an index of experiences.
THE PENDULUM OF FATE
THE WOUND IS THE MARK OF THE SHADOW
