Dear art lovers,
We kindly invite you to experience ZÓCALO, the solo exhibition of visual artist, writer and curator Miguel Keerveld. Building from his broad artistic research and experiences in among other places Mexico, Peru, Brazil, USA and Suriname, Miguel presents a visually, sensorially and conceptually immersive experience that challenges the viewer to a heightened level of engagement and interpretation. Special guest and curator of this exhibition is Mexico-based artist, curator and independent scholar Francisco Guevara, co-founder of the Arquetopia Foundation, which offers International Artist-in Residence programs in Mexico, Peru and Italy.
With ZÓCALO, Miguel celebrates 20 years of creative labor, including nine years as performance persona tumpi flow. Zócalo refers to the main squares in Mexican cities, which were historically also important ceremonial centers for the Aztecs. The title also draws reference to the base of the stolen abstract statue of Alonso de Ojeda made by Erwin de Vries (from which he has previously staged a series of performances – SR), and to the life-death-rebirth tension.
Miguel’s works, particularly his installations – as well as his extensive writings – are often as intriguing as they are complex and enigmatic, consisting of multiple layers of meaning obtained through deeply conceptual, contextual and theoretical explorations. To help shape the concept for this solo exhibition, Miguel has spent many hours in intense conversation and sparring with his mentor and curator of the exhibition, Francisco Guevara, who has over 20 years of experience in among other things designing, curating, and managing art projects through visual arts education and historiography of art. Driven onwards by his own inexhaustible energy, boundless creativity and highly inquisitive mind, Miguel takes visitors along on a thought-provoking journey through artworks that question traditional notions of gender, race, identity, history, life and death. As part of this journey he involves, as he consistently does throughout his artistry, an entire community of creative colleagues and collaborators from Suriname and abroad, who enrich the narrative and the experience offered in art and performance at Miguel’s very own metaphorical ZÓCALO. According to Miguel: “This art manifestation questions the position of the artist as an individual, independent, or solitary agent. It explores creative labor as social appearance and collective force. Therefore, ZÓCALO is a mechanism of community and a ‘composition in strength’, manifesting through communal focus and experiments referred to as ‘Caribbean Futurism’ and ‘Latin American Politics’ in the context of Suriname.” In total ZÓCALO includes work by 22 other creatives based in Suriname, Brazil, Mexico, USA, Peru, the Netherlands, France and Germany.*
ZÓCALO opens in Readytex Art Gallery on November 7, at 7:30 pm. The exhibition remains on display until Saturday, January 4, 2025, during the regular opening hours of the gallery, from Monday – Friday from 8:00 am – 4:30 pm and on Saturday from 8:30 am – 1:30 pm. You and your guests are most welcome!
* Tolin Alexander; Ruben Cabenda; Annemarie Daniël; Yacine Fall; Neil Fortune; Shaundell Horton; Sri Irodikromo; Dakaya Lenz; Diego Alexis López Olvera; Luanda; Victoria Marques; Kurt Nahar; Richenel Para; Dhiradj Ramsamoedj; Fabian de Randamie; Xavier Robles de Medina; Roberto Rodríguez; Luiza Sandler; Kit-Ling Tjon Pian Gi; Cornelius Tulloch; Francisco García Villavicencio; Alanis Vulpis; Rinaldo Klas



















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