The Tradition That Runs through Us

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Image courtesy of Arts Santa Monica

In recent years the world has experienced a great transformation. The world has changed, and due to the proliferation of critical revisions of its patriarchal, colonial and exploitative foundations, our understanding of it has changed as well. Dominant cultures, which have so distinctly marked our identities, have functioned as foreign bodies that violently pierce our definitions of ourselves as individuals.

This transformation, however, points not only to the future but also to the past. Questioning certain foundational myths and recovering others that had historically been sidelined is crucial to reconfiguring our present.

This exhibition asks the question: How do we confront today the tradition that runs through us and continues to wound us?

Arts Santa Mònica has invited twenty artists to share works that revolve around this question. This collective process has led to a series of new works of art, a set of critical readings of the traditions that have shaped us, and continue to do so for better or for worse. 

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