Los otros días .still
Chantal Peñalosa
Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
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- Title
- Los otros días .still
- Gallery
- Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
- Year
- 2018
- Duration
- 9 min 3 s
- Format & Technical
HD, Single-Channel Video, Colour, Sound
Filmed in the abandoned community of El Visitador, the video is a meditation on migration. Even though the state of Zacatecas has a booming mining industry, the majority of the profits and taxes do not stay in the community. Since NAFTA, and its prioritization of corporations, the local people receive few benefits from the pillaging of their land and many Zacatecans have had no choice but to leave in order to find work.
The camera moves through the stillness as gestures of both stealth and affection, invading and caressing a home where the inhabitants had literally just up and left one day, leaving a doll asleep in the window, clothing rumpled on disheveled beds, a chain swinging in an unclosed door.
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Chantal Peñalosa
1987, Tecate
Chantal Peñalosa (1987, Tecate, Mexico) studied fine arts at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California and the University of São Paulo. She was awarded the acquisition prize in the XIV Bienal de Artes Visuales del Noroeste and was awarded FONCA fellowships in the Young Artists category (2013- 2014 and 2015-2016). In 2014 she was also recipient of the Programa Bancomer-MACG in its 4th edition. Recent institutional solo exhibitions include “Atlas Western” at MUAC in Mexico City (2021); “Another Million Moments” at Centro de las Artes Nave Generadores, Monterrey, Mexico; “There’s Something About the Weather of this Place” at BEST PRACTICE, San Diego, USA. Her work has also been shown at institutions such as Museo Jumex, Mexico City; Museo Amparo, Puebla and Bienal Sur, Buenos Aires, Argentina among others.
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Proyectos Monclova
- Address
- Lamartine 415, Polanco, 11560, Mexico City, Mexico
- Website
- proyectosmonclova.com
Established in 2005, Proyectos Monclova is a leading contemporary art gallery based in Mexico City.Representing a roster of some of Mexico’s mostacclaimed contemporary artists and youngtalents, in 2015 the gallery sought to bolster its gallery programming by bringing in emergingand establishedinternational artists, further enriching their dialogue. Proyectos Monclova has become a vital force within the Mexican artworld, playing acritical rolein expanding Mexico’s participation on the global arena while participating innumerous prestigious international art fairs. The gallery continues to advance its mission by offering a dynamic program thatseeks toenrich thelocal and international discourse through notable exhibitions, institutional collaborations, artistinitiatives and scholarly publications.