Una película de Dios

Abstract

I collaborated for several months with eight underage girls who had been immersed in the context of sexual abuse and exploitation in Mexico to jointly produce a curatorial piece accompanied by an audio guide of religious paintings, mostly from the colonial period.

I showed the children around fifty paintings from Mexican collections, and from these they chose the nine that would end up making up the curatorial project. The content of the audio guide was extracted from their subjective interpretations of the Catholic scenes depicted.

I then contacted a family of former pimps –a mother and two of her children– who, while in prison for their crimes, “found God” and became Christian pastors. I invited them to interpret, based on their experience as traffickers, the paintings selected by the minors, thus complementing the audio guide.

I asked the MUAC, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (University Museum of Contemporary Art), to negotiate the loans of works of art with the institutions that owned the paintings in order to display the original works in the exhibition.