Triptych
There is no other route than ours
David Alfaro Siqueiros
Do you remember Diego Rivera’s Zapatista Landscape?
For an instant an accumulation of perspectives proliferate and flash rhythmically to give the eye a simultaneous tactility. In 1915 Rivera painted the actuality of a revolution from a polymorphic synthesis in which it was possible to perceive it. Before the State “institutionalized” the revolution and before Rivera engaged in his muralist gigantomachy, there was a kinetic and revolutionary preamble. It is this polymorphous and perspectival impulse that summons and mobilizes us to commemorate the 110th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution from the only possible route: through fissured narratives and fractures that diffract history, through spaces and times that are juxtaposed and combined to intertwine image and sound, through testimonial breaks that induce a generalized breakdown in the landscape. Audiovisual syntheses made with the precariousness and actuality of a reactivated landscape.
The planting of marigold flowers for the Day of the Dead celebrations is one of the last tasks that the Ayotzinapa Normalista students completed before they were brutally disappeared. With small 35mm Lomokino cameras, which we had to repair and stick together several times since they are manufactured to be disposable, we recorded the seasonal harvest, in order to impregnate the fragility of the chemical canvas with the earth, not only that of the mass graves but that other earth that illuminates the work of our Normalista companions. Faced with the intolerable nature of the catastrophes and crimes against humanity suffered in Mexico, a single decision-resolution: to resist by filming.
