Shear x Erre (Col) and Vlocke
Monday to Saturday 12 to 8 pm
Shears
f. An instrument resembling large scissors, used to cut: padlocks, bars, barbed wire and even something deeper.
BECAUSE
of an internal recognition, of a continuous struggle and of punk. A Colombian artist, Erre, becomes a wall-crawler who uses the shears to break chains of dominant discourses; in that same walk she meets a lover of the same tool, of red and black, a Mexican artist who observes the chaos from behind the bars and who, like her, does not stay still, Vlocke Negro.
Both incite the break from the edge of the blade, the laser, the cutter and the shears , particularly the one that is intended as a tool of social rescue to provoke a change in the hegemonic models that we find in our own attitudes from the starting point of the break.
These two street artists have developed an incredible and well-known body of work that carries a strong political message. Erre and Vlocke Negro use satire, black humour and shear to address themes such as women's struggle, people's liberation, rebellion, chaos, authoritarianism, environmental and socio-political issues.
They explore the graphical approach to social and economic normality in order to disrupt and create new relationships, behaviors and ideas. They immerse themselves in a discourse of reconfiguration that tears, breaks and goes beyond systematic logic to resist the norm.
They make noise, they disrupt and question labels, they make the viewer uncomfortable and they burst concepts to create new ties through questioning.
Sharpening is not staying still.
Text by Karen Benavides
Free entry, schedule your visit.
RANGE: Comitan 10, Col Hipódromo, CDMX
