{"id":341,"date":"2021-06-11T05:08:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T05:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.claudiauranga.com\/?p=341"},"modified":"2021-09-06T06:51:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T06:51:24","slug":"mi-padre-dijo-que-en-mexico-todos-eramos-indios-aun-sin-saberlo-ni-quererlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.claudiauranga.com\/en\/mi-padre-dijo-que-en-mexico-todos-eramos-indios-aun-sin-saberlo-ni-quererlo\/","title":{"rendered":"\"My father said that in Mexico we were all Indians, even without knowing it or wanting it.\""},"content":{"rendered":"

This piece emerges from a critical analysis of the Mexican myth of racial mixing. It employs nylon and lycra stockings in various shades resembling \"skin\" colors, mounted on 160 small wooden frames (17\u00d717 cm each). This pixelated color grid draws from the standard chromatic range offered by commercial brands, reflecting their purported \"varieties of color\" akin to \"skin\" tones \u2013 a notion starkly contrasted by the reality of limited representation of the diverse spectrum of skin tones in the country's populace. This creation prompts contemplation on labor division and wealth distribution in relation to colorimetry, revealing racism entrenched in the ideology that associates race with skin color. Through a visually striking chromatic gradient formed by myriad pixels, the piece highlights the exclusionary and racist undertones embedded within the socks' purported \"variety\". Its title is borrowed from Jos\u00e9\u0301 Emilio Pacheco novel title Batallas en el desierto<\/em>...<\/p>\n

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\"My father said that in Mexico we were all Indians, even without knowing it or wanting it.\"<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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2.75meters x 1.75meters<\/p>\n

nylon stockings over<\/p>\n

wooden frames<\/p>\n

2017 \u00a9 Claudia Uranga Alonso<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Esta pieza se desarrolla desde la reflexi\u00f3n cr\u00edtica del mito del mestizaje. En ella empleo como medio principal las medias de nylon y lycra en los distintos tonos de \u201cpiel\u201d, montadas sobre 160 marcos peque\u00f1os de madera (de 17×17 cm cada uno), a partir de la gama crom\u00e1tica est\u00e1ndar que tienen las marcas comerciales y … Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ahorita_no_gracias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiauranga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiauranga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiauranga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiauranga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiauranga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiauranga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiauranga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiauranga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiauranga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiauranga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claudiauranga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}