Post-Mexican art. Art beyond the Mexican feeling: the apprehension of the discourse beyond symbolic territorialities

Abstract

Mexican art has always been difficult to conceptualize. From notions that encompass substantial nationalist determination, to discourses that are completely alienated from the country's cultural and social apprehension, Mexican art navigates in a vaporous terrain that is mutable in itself, and that, therefore, is intangible to the touch.

Its gaseous conformation has depended on different perspectives (many of them being foreign), which have structured and modeled it through specific containers. These modulations have led to the naming of Mexican art through compact structures that, while allowing a “relevant” visualization, it enclose it and controls the possibility of its expansion.

The act of naming is an instance of power, and in this sense, Mexican art has not been able to name itself, rather, it has always been named.

That is why post-Mexican art is presented as a possibility of subversion through the apprehension of the symbolism that makes up Mexicanness, and the transgression of said elements in the reconceptualization of a new imaginary, which enables an awareness of being Mexican in postmodern times.

Post-Mexican art encompasses the notion of decolonialism, through a symbolic transculturation through the re-apprehension of the archetypes that made up (and continue to make up) the identity prison of being Mexican, with the possibility of rereading not only the artistic language, but of the very conformation and conceptualization of the national being.