Vivan las fuerzas revolucionarias campesinas! The machete is a basic tool for farm work, a symbol of the severity of life in the fields, but it is also a symbol of insurgency, uprising and social struggle. In Mexican context, where arms trafficking has contributed to the impoverishment of the value of life, the machete acquires a timeless, mythical halo. Referential images crowd our head: we can evoke the colonial struggles, the Yanga rebellion in Veracruz, the independence wars, the peasant movement in the Revolution, the Zapatista armed insurrection of the EZLN, the uprising in Atenco or the guerrilla groups that They converged in the EPR and are contemporary expressions of the armed struggles for the emancipation of those who have experienced the systematic and permanent repression of capitalist structure. They fight in clandestinity, where ideas and words are sharp cutting weapons, which rise defiantly, and its gesture, like the calligraphic stroke, seeks to start, transform. The uprising, as Didi-Huberman explains, is potentially infinite, the uprising as an impulse of freedom, a gesture that, rooted in memory, is launched to transgress the established, the system that oppresses, to reinvent and re-create the existing order. Text by Claudia de la Garza Gálvez @desbordesfem #contemporaryart #installationart #artinstallation #escriturasenfuga #calligraphysculpture #calligraphy #sitespecificart #sitespecific #saidokins photo: @leodluna (en Mesoamerica) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_teCEqjNik/?igshid=q8lj6phaps62
