Mariana Castillo Deball: Amarantus
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ISBN: 978-84-17975-92-0
Author: Mariana Castillo Deball
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 240
Size: 16 x 22 cm / 6.3 x 8.7 in.
Language: Bilingual (ESP-ENG)
Year of publication: 2021
Category: Contemporary Art
The word amarantus, which gives name to this exhibition catalogue, comes from the Greek Αμάρανθος, which describes a flower that never dies—like amaranth, which never wilts. This plant is still used to prepare ixiptlahuan, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures that areritually consumed by some indigenous peoples in Mexico. The amaranth flower represents the persistence of these “uneasy objects” that Castillo Deball makes visible in her historical itineraries and approximations, and which keep speaking to us in the present.
