As part of the curatorial line of the exhibition MUAC Collection: Genealogies and Dissent, the exhibition Rini Templeton: Notes, which opened at the University Museum of Contemporary Art on August 30th, presents an artistic proposal in which the image played a central political role.
This archival exhibition—curated by Elva Peniche Montfort and Cristine Galindo Adler—seeks to recover her work processes and commitments as a producer of images in the service of political and social causes, based on an exhaustive review of 76 notebooks. These make up the Rini Templeton Collection at the MUAC's Arkheia Documentation Center, which was donated for safekeeping and research by Templeton's niece, Corinne Field.
In these notebooks, the artist recorded the daily life, organization, and environment of the mobilizations with which she was involved, through pencil, watercolor, ink, and marker drawings, which became templates for reproduction and circulation, mainly through photocopies (a process she called “Xerox-art”) at rallies and marches. Additionally, there are written notes taken during assemblies or meetings of militant groups, as well as poems and annotations from readings.
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