FELIPE BAEZA – LA EMERGENCIA DE HACER MEMORIA
2019-04-29This marks Baeza’s first solo exhibition in New York, as well as the release of his first artist’s book, Gente del Occidente de Mexico published by Fortnight Institute in a limited edition. The works in the exhibition are created through a fragmented process of reworking and reusing of materials, mostly images found in books, that integrate collage and monotype printing techniques. Through this practice, Baeza’s work becomes a palimpsest of memories. As the title suggests, there is an urgency, a need and desire, for memories to be created, collected and kept within the inner and outer substance of being. The pieces become vessels for ancestral histories to be contained in. Stated in the introductory quote above is the idea that divine power and energy can only be contained by an object. At the root of Nahua philosophy, is Teotl, the belief that there exists a sole, dynamic, vitalizing, perpetually self-generating and self-regenerating sacred power, energy or force. The Nahua people are a native group of central Mexico that included the Aztecs of pre-conquest Mexico.
Exhibition runs through to June 3rd, 2019
Fortnight Institute
60 East 4th St.
NYC 10003
