San Agustín Etla, Oax., A lot more than 100 years just after the financial growth and modernization projects imposed through the dictatorship of President Porfirio Díaz, in Mexico and the environment patterns that find expansion with out sustainable projects keep on to be recurring, which has been documented by the Oaxacan artist Laureana Toledo, who offers the results of her investigate in the exhibition Get and development which opened very last Saturday at the San Agustín Middle for the Arts (CaSa).

The exhibition portrays Toledo’s really hard do the job for 9 a long time in which he traveled both in England and in the region of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca and Veracruz.

Laureana’s concept is loud and apparent: much more than 100 a long time later on, humanity has not learned anything, mainly because the so-referred to as improvement initiatives to nature, just as through the govt of Díaz Mori, who utilised the motto of Order and progress and imposed works Today a very similar coverage is carried out, equally with the interoceanic coach on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and with the Mayan Coach, the artist referred during the tour that she provided to the press.

In the governing administration of Porfirio Díaz, he defined, the Englishman Weetman D. Pearson was awarded a sequence of jobs just one of the key types was the Tehuantepec Countrywide Educate by way of which it linked the Pacific Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico, through whose execution oil fields have been learned, which had been exploited by Pearson thanks to the concessions granted by the Federation.

A long time afterwards, Pearson remaining this region and returned to England, with out caring about the degradation of the territory and the consequences established by these tasks that left their mark on nature, said Toledo, who added that he visited the Science Museum in London to assess the Weetman archive D. Pearson, and toured the Cowdray Estate in West Sussex, a location that still belongs to the spouse and children of the English businessman, whose landscape is far from that located in the Isthmus and areas of Veracruz.

The exhibition, which was curated by Ariadna Ramonetti Liceaga, has photos taken in a identical way, a felt developed at the CaSa, which demonstrates a map designed with threads that arrive from numerous countries and that converge exactly at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, In which does the creator occur from? In accordance to her vision, she extra, it is about showing how the distinct tasks that arrive from all over the environment to this location they tighten it like a corset, constantly in research of earnings with no caring for the environment.

Laureana added that this is a sample of the depredation of big funds, not only English, but from all more than the planet, together with Mexicans in this circumstance, Oaxacans. The unlucky factor is that 100 decades later, minimal has been realized. There are teams of individuals who seek to defend their territory nonetheless, there are couple who combat, and most of the people and territory are exploited for the sake of progresshe reiterated.

The exhibition will be open up until mid-November this yr.