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Category: Mexico

At Your Home Without Me: The Artistic Mankind of Betsabeé Romero

Posted on May 11, 2020June 16, 2020by JC AgidLeave a comment

At Your Home Without Me: The Artistic Mankind of Betsabeé Romero

“Art needs to express itself to safeguard humanity.” These are the words of Betsabeé Romero, a Mexican fixture, sculptor, and a generous, greedy painter who is exhibited around the world. She is a poet and activist too. This humanity—a damaged, confused and self-reflecting humanity—was not prepared to face the brutal consequences of the Covid19 pandemic.

Betsabeé Romero is now listening to the suddenly silent streets of Mexico City, North America’s largest city.

From her little street house in the Villa de Cortés district, the artist is on the lookout for the sadness that invades the world faster than the disease. The absence of funerals. the hidden violence against the women and children in her country. And of course, her own personal fight fight for female artists. 

Confined, she writes, draws, and reads, mostly philosophy at the moment. She is thinking about art installations to illustrate the staggered mourning that many people will experience. Incidentally, she has been invited to create and speak on this topic at the Frieze in London this Fall, as well as in Sydney and Rome.

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At Your Home Without Me with Vanessa Serrano: Confined Bodies, but Free Souls with

Posted on March 28, 2020June 16, 2020by JC Agid2 Comments

At Your Home Without Me with Vanessa Serrano
Confined Bodies, but Free Souls. At Last

‘When I bared my soul it seems you did not hear‘
Joe Jackson | Body and Soul

Singer and songwriter Erykah Badu recently posted on Instagram a drawing of a person seated in a lotus position. “If you can’t go outside,” the caption read, “go inside.”

“A sound advice,” wrote Diane Von Furstenberg who shared the post @therealdvf.

‘If you can’t go outside, go inside’ is exactly what Mexican author and entrepreneur Vanessa Serrano—who has developed her professional work as a path to search for her own purpose—invites people to focus on.

“I believe we should take today’s opportunity to observe our minds,” Vanessa told me in a phone interview.

To ease people’s confinement, Serrano has created a series of free online sessions in Spanish  called Healing Detox and Spiritual Awakening. 

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Posted in Amazing Women, Byline JC Agid, Mexico, Mexico City, Mujeres, Not At Home With, Spirituality, Ten Questions With, Uncategorized, Well Being, Women in Mexico
Tagged Awakening, Awareness, Confinement, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Empathy, Jacques Attali, JC Agid, Meditation, Mexico, Soul, Spirituality, Vanessa Serrano, Wake Up, Well Being, Women Empowerment, Women's Forum Mexico, Yuval Noah Harari, Zertu

A Hug to Humanity

Posted on July 24, 2019February 10, 2022by JC Agid2 Comments

A Hug to Humanity


Fire-chat with Saskia Niño de Rivera, founder of Reinserta in Mexico

Saskia Niño de Rivera was the first of the Vital Voices Gala evening’s honorees to walk back on stage at Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center Opera on April  24th, 2019.

The Mexican activist went straight to Hillary Clinton, and without hesitation, hugged the former Secretary of State and co-founder of Vital Voices, a global foundation launched in 1997 to support women who advance economic opportunity, increase political and public engagement, end gender-based violence and promote human rights across 180 countries and territories.

A few moments before, the audience saw a video of children playing in Lucha Libre disguises (the famous masked Mexican wrestlers). One them, drawing, is heard wishing: “I want to go to the zoo; when I am big, I want to be a fireman; and when I am really big–yeah–if I am really big, I will be The Hulk.” 

A childhood fantasy, indeed, except this child cannot even go to a zoo. This child is one the 700 children born and raised in a Mexican jail.

 

Saskia Nino de Rivera and Hillary Clinton | (c) Lancer Photography | 2019
Saskia Niño de Rivera and Hillary Clinton | (c) Lancer Photography | 2019

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Posted in Byline JC Agid, Fire Chat With, Mexico, Mujeres, Women Empowerment, Women in Mexico
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A Requiem for a Car

Posted on April 6, 2019April 13, 2019by JC Agid1 Comment

A Requiem for a Car
Fire chat with Mexican artist Betsabeé Romero, special guest of Art Paris 2019

A group of bicycles is carrying on their “shoulders a dead body made-of-steel,” moving a car through the large avenues and narrow streets of Paris to its final resting place right in front of Le Grand Palais, next to the Champs Elysées. “A Requiem for a Car,” a Jaguar to be exact, is a symbol of speed, power and wealth. This invitation to slow down a humanity obsessed with haste, consumerism, and individualism is Mexican artist Betsabeé Romero art installation to celebrate the 2019 edition of Art Paris. Romero, whose art has been exhibited throughout the world and is now part of the permanent collections in North and South American as well as European museums, plays here with some of her favorite themes: automobiles and globalization. 

A spanish version of this interview with Bétsabée Romero was published online by First Class Life

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Posted in ART, Byline JC Agid, Culture, Fire Chat With, Mexico, Uncategorized, Women can have it all, Women Empowerment, Women in Mexico
Tagged Art, Article, ArtParis, ARTParis2019, Betsabee Romero, Mexico, Women Artist, Women Empowerment, women in Mexico, Women's Forum

FRIDA’s (back) in New York … as KAHLO

Posted on March 4, 2019April 12, 2019by JC AgidLeave a comment

CELEBRATING FRIDA KAHLO IN NEW YORK

At least until May 12th. First, at the Brooklyn Museum with the exhibition “Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving.”

But also, through the Mexican painter’s influence on art and fashion with the presentation of artist’s Hormazd Narielwalla’s last series of Frida collages at Art on Paper New York March 7-10.

Finally, throughout a city, which was the first to publicly recognize the art of Frida Kahlo: in New York during the late 1930s where she became a full-fledged artist.

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Posted in ART, Byline JC Agid, Culture, Mexico, Mujeres, New York, Women in Mexico
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