July 2019
I lived in Yucatan for 10 years. I wanted to make a piece that was a tribute to this place that gave me peace, it was a shelter where peace and calm made a contrast with the place where I was born in the north of Mexico.
Refuge is an action where I lay on a mattress, that has a ceiba tree planted in the center. There are sounds surrounding the installation. I'm in a state of lucid sleep (achieved by yoga nydra practice). The sounds are gunshots and helicopters, these sounds play in a loop and they are a reminder of the drug cartel wars that went on heavily in Monterrey during 2008-2011.
The ceiba tree is a sacred tree for the Mayans. It is said that the tree has healing benefits when you sleep under it. To me, this tree represents the place that became my shelter for a period of time.
Refuge was a piece that was part of the exhibition called: Metapolis, at the Theater Peon Contreras, in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, in July 2019.
Nahomi Ximenez Refuge. Action/ Audiovisual installation. 2019
Nahomi Ximenez Refuge. Action/ Audiovisual installation. 2019
Nahomi Ximenez Refuge. Action/ Audiovisual installation. 2019
Video and photography documentation by Francisco Pechan
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