Luz María Sánchez captures live street shoot-outs in powerful art exhibition in Mexico’s Capital

MEXICO CITY - Oct. 28, 2015 - PRLog -- The powerful sound sculpture installation entitled V.F(i)n_1 by Mexican artist Luz María Sánchez is coming to Mexico City on Friday, October 30th, at Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil. After exhibiting in the U.S. and winning the First Prize at the Bienal de las Fronteras at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Matamoros earlier this year, Sánchez is eager to show this sound sculpture / installation in the country’s Capital where she lives.

The award winning exhibition addresses the subject of violence in Mexico featuring recordings by people around the country caught in crossfire, either between law enforcement and organized crime, or different Drug Cartels fighting for the control of key cities around the country. Taken from videos uploaded to YouTube, the recordings are from everyday people on the street documenting their experiences of violence and sharing them on social networks.

“Everyday violence happening in the country is not being covered by regional or national Media, so people are flocking to social networks to share their own sounds and images,” explains Sánchez.

V.F(i) n_1 is a multi-channel sound sculpture/installation assembled using 74 gun-shaped audio players that build a large format sound-texture composed of the same number of acoustic logs:  shootings recorded by citizens on the street caught in violent confrontations. Consisting of 74 independent audio channels, the soundtracks are played individually on each of the sound devices. At the end of the day and as the batteries run out of charge, speakers/guns go off gradually so the circle of operation/sound non-operation/silence is restarted.

Originally from Guadalajara, Luz María Sánchez is an international award winning artist living and working in Mexico and the United States. Sánchez is an active scholar, writer and educator. She first studied music and literature before her doctoral studies took her to the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Working with themes such as the Mexican diaspora, violence in the Americas, and the failure of Nation-states, Sánchez employs both sound as well as the moving image in order to create a full sensory experience, thus imbuing the work with a physical immediacy in the face of political trauma.

In 2014 Sánchez was awarded the first prize in the inaugural Bienal de las Fronteras, and in 2015 she was selected as an Arts Member of the National System of Art Creators by the prestigious National Institute of Arts and Culture in Mexico. She was most recently received the Climate Change artist award for a commissioned outdoor land art piece for the Land Heritage Institute in Texas. Sánchez’s work has also been included in major international sound and music festivals.

Currently she has two exhibitions in the U.S.: a solo show at Artpace San Antonio with artwork made on 2006 as part of her participation on the International-Artist-Residency (Sánchez was selected by Yuko Hasegawa, the current Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo) running until Jan 6th 2016, and in Houston at She Works Flexible.  www.luzmariasanchez.com

Exhibition Information: Opens, Friday, October 30 and runs through January 7, 2016 at Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Ave. Revolución 1608, esquina Altavista, Colonia San Angel, Mexico, DF.