Una Modernidad Hecha a Mano

This exhibition proposes to review the notion of craft design that was produced and theorized in Mexico from 1950 to the present, tracing a genealogy of artists, designers, and craftspeople who strove to generate a hybrid, mestizo material culture and thereby create an imaginary for a new way of life.

A Handmade Modernism suggests that a Mexicanist school of design has existed for the past seventy years, ever since Porset proposed to incorporate a hybrid, mestizo vision of design into modern life. It therefore recognizes the value of the transgenerational continuity of that project while also questioning the ongoing adherence to that mark of origin.

Design in collaboration with Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC)’s team: Cecilia Pardo, Triana Jiménez and Rafael Acosta
Curated by Ana Elena Mallet
On View at MUAC May 14, 2022 to November 13, 2022