Here and now, you arrive to Tulum to be curious, to touch things, to be touched by things. You are standing on calcareous rock, the colours are overwhelming, especially if you come from a low saturated part of the world. You become grounded and present, like a rock you are standing on.
There are rocks that make you heavier, there are rocks that make you lighter. The rocks you swallow here turn into a porous strainer inside your belly and sift things through.
It is a place full of stories and its often hard to understand who is telling the story: the invaded, the invaders, the rebels or others, unnamed yet. Huitlacoche or fungus or corn smut or Mexican truffle - one ingredient and too many names. Yesterday’s Aztec daily food. Today’s delicacy in one geography and pest in another.
Corn as a time travelling ship that evolved from domestication of jungle and through many species and timelines.
There is liquid in your mouth, a juice that came from pressing a rock with your tongue. Rock made from fungus, fungus that grows with corn, corn that all people are made from.
(1) From french amuse-bouche
(2) According to Popol Vuh: the Sacred Text of the Ancient Quiché Maya
A Southern California native and graduate of the San Diego Culinary Institute, Jose Luis Hinostroza's passion for cooking has taken him all over the world – from Alinea in Chicago to El Celler de Can Roca in Girona, Spain and Maaemo in Oslo, Norway – learning from some of the best Chefs along the way.
She holds a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London and an MA from the Royal College of Art, London. Selected solo exhibitions include: ‘A Walk, A Dance, A Ritual’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany (2014) and ‘Story Demands to be Continued’, Republic of Dagestan Union of Artists, Makhachkala, Russia (2013). Selected group exhibitions include: ‘Love me, Love me not’, Collateral exhibition, 55th Venice Biennale (2013); ‘Re: emerge – Towards a New Cultural Cartography’, Sharjah Biennial 11 (2013); ‘City States – Makhachkala, Topography of Masculinity’, 7th Liverpool Biennial, (2012), ‘Rewriting Worlds’, ArtPlay Сentre, The Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, (2011); ‘Greater Caucasus’, PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm (2011); ‘Affirmative Action (Mimesis)’, Laura Bulian Gallery, Milan (2011); ‘Practice for Everyday Life’, Calvert 22, London (2011); and ‘History of Russian Video Art’, Volume 3, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2010).
In 2014 Taus Makhacheva won the Future of Europe prize at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, and in 2012 she received the Innovation Prize, the Russian state award for contemporary art in Moscow, the ‘New Generation’ category, for her project The Fast and The Furious.
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