Design in feminine. Contemporary Mexico is the exhibition that until 18 February continues to be shown at the Fundación Casa de México, in which the work created by women who have chosen to make design their profession and their way of life is vindicated, made visible, reviewed and documented.
The history and practice of design were founded from a male perspective. Great male designers predominate in books and historical records; they have occupied the pages of magazines and filed the most patents. In the history of the discipline, if women designers are mentioned at all, they are almost always subordinated to the work of the male creative genius or simply given credit as their romantic partners.
Women designers in Mexico have bent social structures and norms, seeking to carve out an inclusive practice. This exhibition seeks to establish alternatives to the dominant narratives and provide different readings to those established so far in the history of design.
The exhibition, curated by Ana Elena Mallet and Pilar Obeso, also includes works by indigenous women who are commonly referred to as artisans, but whose practice can be defined as design and who for cultural and social reasons have been relegated outside the discipline.
Through seven nuclei: Collaboration, Rethinking Tradition, New Media and New Materials, From the Local to the International, Binomials, A Gender Perspective and The Reaches of Visual Communication, the exhibition explores the different trends and aspects of design that have governed the imaginary and the supposedly feminine practice in the first decades of the 21st century.
