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Step inside our new installation “Spiral for Shared Dreams.”
This work by Carolina Caycedo’s uses handmade fishing nets created by four communities in Mexico facing environmental challenges. The artist then intervened with color and embroideries.
“For me, this project is about feeding and nurturing an existing network of people. I get in touch and work with these communities as a way of strengthening political solidarity and environmental empathy.”
Natural and mythological figures appear on some of the nets: a shrimp; an eye representing Chalchiuhtlicue (an Aztec goddess associated with fresh water), childbirth, and sensuality; and the Aztec glyph atl, which, for Caycedo, “stands for a dignified rage, which inspires a lot of us who share dreams for change.”
Recently we spoke with Caycedo about Spiral for Shared Dreams, the connection between art making and activism, and art’s ability to make us remember.
→ Read about an interview with Caycedo and members of fishing cooperatives in Mexico on #MoMAMagazine — mo.ma/3RTnvec
→ See “Spiral for Shared Dreams” on view now at MoMA.
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Carolina Caycedo. “Spiral for Shared Dreams, from the series ‘Cosmoatarrayas’.” 2022. Gift of the Fund for the Twenty First Century, Latin American and Caribbean Fund, and Adriana Cisneros de Griffin
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