Sandra Del Pilar's solo exhibition Hijos de la Malintzin... (04/07/2023)
Sandra Del Pilar’s solo exhibition Hijos de la Malintzin… was on view at Cristobal Contemporary between February 9 – April 9, 2023. The project Unrevealed Scenes from Malintzin’s life explores the constructions of individual, cultural and political memory through an emblematic figure of the conquest of Mexico, which over time acquired, as a political symbol of various orientations, almost mythical features: Malintzin, better known as La Malinche. In a predominantly negative role, she is a central component of the collective Mexican memory, although the historical facts about her are quite sparse and, moreover, are received in a one-sided manner, since so far almost exclusively the Spanish written sources about the conquest have been taken into account, but not the indigenous pictorial sources of the so-called codices.
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Image: Sandra Del Pilar, Malintzin administering the tributes, especially the teocuitlatl, 2022, from the series: Unpublished scenes from the life of Malintzin, oil on canvas and transparent mesh, 147 x 147 cm.