Age of Discrepancies, The / Era de La Discrepancia, La
Olivier Debroise
This survey of artistic experimentation in late twentieth-century Mexico assesses fields as diverse as painting, photography, poster design, installation, performance, experimental theater, Super-8 film, video, music, poetry and popular culture. It also attempts - in what may be an experimental work itself - to recreate ephemeral works, insofar as possible, with the support of the artists. The three tumultuous decades between 1968 and 1997 saw the end of the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) in a violent final phase that began with the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre - which brutally crushed the student movement of 1968 - and ended with the crises that followed the 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. "The Age of Discrepancies" is the first visual history to cover this exceptional period, and to propose a genealogy for the work that emerged from it, which is increasingly valued worldwide.