Manifesto of Fashion as Resistance

Large format book by Carla Fernández

 

At the same time that it is an ideological manifesto that captures her positions regarding fashion, the design, creation, and production of garments, this is a document that celebrates 15 years since the creation of the Carla Fernández Fashion House and 30 years of collaborating through creative and productive activities with wonderful Mexican artisans in 16 states of Mexico with more of 80 different craft techniques.

It is an art book with more than 200 photographs, where their collaboration, their inspirations, the Mexican roots, and the current struggles of feminism; at the same time, it is a photographic essay on the evolution of the designer as an artist who finds a language, no need for prominence.

The visual art of Manifesto of Fashion in Resistance has the participation of several visions photographs, among which those of Graciela Iturbide, Maya Goded, Ricardo Ramos, Maruch Santíz, Ramiro Chaves, Ana Hop, among others, as well as texts by Julieta González, Florence Müller, Circe Henestrosa and Cristina Rangel, who talk about the work of Carla Fernández and its impact on the design scene in Mexico and in turn in the world, as well as the different catwalks and exhibitions, such as those of the Jumex Museum, in Mexico City, the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London, England, Isabella Stewart Gardner, in Boston, among others.

CENTROAMÉRICA EN ACCIÓN

Publication by Pancho López, in collaboration with the Cultural Center of Spain in Costa Rica and the CAV La Neomudéjar Museum.

After almost two years of research work, the Mexican artist and researcher Pancho López presents the book Centroamérica en Acción, which was published by MADC, at the invitation of Antonieta Sibaja Hidalgo, in collaboration with the Cultural Center of Spain in Costa Rica and the La Neomudéjar Vanguard Art Center Museum in Madrid, Spain.

This book brings together in just over 150 pages a historiographical tour of performance and the artists who practice it in the Central American region. The project also had the support of the Jumex Contemporary Art Foundation, one of the most recognized Mexican institutions in the international artistic field.

With the sponsorship scholarship granted to him by this foundation, the artist was able to travel through the countries of Central America, reviewing the performance art scene from Guatemala to Panama.