The Museum of Multidimensional Mutant Maps
Documentation of Installation at Philosophical Research Society by Edgar Fabián Frías
“With their irreverent techno-psychedelia, Edgar Fabián Frías challenges the subjective and colonial nature of Western cartography in favor of a more open-ended and expansive map-making system. Drawing inspiration from the Wixárika (Huichol) people's Nierika technique, a traditional craft that incorporates yarn, beads, and other objects to depict symbolic images of flora and fauna, Frías creates paintings, sculptures, videos, and interactive installations that subvert linear portrayals of time and space.”
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Paintings Included In Installation
Artist Talk At Art Opening
Flyer For Exhibition
Curatorial Walkthrough with Katie Peyton Hofstadter
Subsequent Iterations
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From the article:
Against these fixed outlines, Wixárika artist and brujx Makuyeika, Edgar Fabian Frias creates virtual, holographic maps that embrace diffusion and fluidity. Unlike Gast’s “American Progress,” the figures in Frias’s works are integrated into the landscape, their colors synthesizing with the environment. These are maps for contemporary ancestors, drawing from “Nierika,” a Wixárika technology for world-making.