Katya Mora (MEX/GB) presents a body of work developed during an international residency project in 2024 at the Amparo Puebla Museum in Mexico, where the series was first exhibited. Parts of the work are currently on view in a group show in Stuttgart. Katya Mora lives and works in Oxford and may join us for a talk and conversation on the final day of the exhibition.
Being Volcana This exhibition is the reconstruction of an intimate space and a living dialogue with a non-human entity: the Popocatépetl volcano. The memories and concerns of the artist herself and of the people who live in the areas around the volcano, including the tiemperos (people in charge of talking to the volcano on behalf of their people), are narrated in a voice-over, almost in the form of a whisper. A polyphony expressed in the first person and in the present tense where the search to capture the vibrations of the volcano, the observation of the body as a territory of exchange and the exploration of orality as a sensitive memory are the guiding thread of this dialogue proposed as an accumulation of living forces.
