Tomorrow Friday at 7 pm, the Instituto Cultural of Mexico (Carrera de San Jerónimo, 46) and the Embassy of Mexico present the performance of the Mexican artist Gloria Godínez, Prophecies of Tonantzin.
The fervent adoration of the virgin of Guadalupe can be seen as a sort of return to the female deities, Tonantzin, Chicomecóatl, Coatlicue and Cihuacóatl, primeval goddesses, matrons, warriors and powerful monstrous that devoured the colonial virgin, They took image, name and dress to make themselves visible in an endless performance of crossbreeding.
Gloria Godínez, a Mexican living in Gran Canaria, works as an academic researcher and creator of the living arts. Studied philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and doctorate in literature theory at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. In artistic creations, as well as in research works, she reviews notions such as desire, repetition, migration, gender, decolonization and territorial feminisms from two often intersecting worldviews. His work collects the vernacular knowledge of Mexico and the Canary Islands through the transoceanic link that was generated over four centuries of maritime travel transporting plant beings, animals and humans back and forth. He has created different artistic pieces in countries such as Mexico, Costa Rica, Cuba, the United States, Spain, Brazil, Chile, Senegal, Switzerland, France and Ghana.
