Art After Hours
In experimental film and multimedia installation, Federico Cuatlacuatl explores transborder indigenous Nahua identities. His work envisions indigenous futurity as a means of thinking about history, diasporic legacies, and cultural identities connected to his hometown of Coapan, Cholula, Mexico.
Cuatlacuatl draws on his own personal and familial experiences to foreground the marginalization of and violence against indigenous communities in Mexico and the struggles of indigenous migrants in the United States. His work merges the past, present, and future, exploring the transcendence of time and space “to reclaim a new dimension of territory or place that must exist in between two worlds, between the past and the future, between two identities, between one’s many selves.”
Tiaxcas Intergalácticxs, Topileastronáuticxs includes a new three-channel video alongside regalia the artist has altered for use in the videos. The exhibition highlights the full range of Cuatlacuatl’s practice, giving visitors the opportunity to experience the materiality and physicality of his sculptural installations, along with the expansive vision of his video work.