Museo Jumex to Present Clotilde Jiménez’s ‘The Grotto’

By David Salazar
(Credit: Museo Jumex)

Mexico’s Museo Jumex is set to present Clotilde Jiménez’s “The Grotto.”

The experimental opera in two acts will open on Oct. 26, 2024 and tells the story of real events that marked the artist’s wife in the town of La Garra, Guerrero in Mexico.

This is Jiménez’s first opera. She works in collaboration with composer and sound designer Javier Antonio Bellato.

“The exhibition explores the impact of colonialism on rural towns, questions its permanent effects and investigates ways to live in this regime without losing oneself,” adds the official website for the program. “Through magical and spiritual situations, Catholic beliefs come head-to-head with Nahua traditions that seek to contrast the customs imposed through the conquest to more recent forms of oppression, such as the border relations between Mexico and the United States. The artist proposes the concept of ‘mesofuturism’ as a way of looking into the future and altering reality through the Mesoamerican cultural lens. Sound and movement become other ways of remembering and new ways of seeing.”

The opera runs through Nov. 27, 2024.

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