M HKA gaat digitaal

Met M HKA Ensembles zetten we onze eerste échte stappen in het digitale landschap. Ons doel is met behulp van nieuwe media de kunstwerken nog beter te kaderen dan we tot nu toe hebben kunnen doen.

We geven momenteel prioriteit aan smartphones en tablets, m.a.w. de in-museum-ervaring. Maar we zijn evenzeer hard aan het werk aan een veelzijdige desktop-versie. Tot het zover is vind je hier deze tussenversie.

M HKA goes digital

Embracing the possibilities of new media, M HKA is making a particular effort to share its knowledge and give art the framework it deserves.

We are currently focusing on the experience in the museum with this application for smartphones and tablets. In the future this will also lead to a versatile desktop version, which is now still in its construction phase.

Coyolxauhqui, 2020

Drawing, 220 x 210 cm .

© Dora Garcia

Collection: Courtesy galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid.

The drawing refers to the Coyolxauhqui stone (ca. 1473 CE), a carved, circular relief showing the Aztec deity Coyolxauhqui in a state of mutilation. The stone was used for sacrificial rites that took the form of a ritual re-enactment of the myth of the killing of the goddess by her brother. Coyolxauhqui identifies with the moon and her killer with the Sun god. Scholars think of the dismembering of Coyolxauhqui as a metaphor for the phases of the moon, but García understands this association (dismembered body/moon phases) as a manifestation atavistic violence against women and as a reference to le corps morcelé, a concept developed by Jacques Lacan in the context of the mirror stage (mirror/moon).

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Media

>Coyolxauhqui, 2020

>Dora García, Coyolxauhqui, 2020 (installation view — She Has Many Names, 2023, M HKA)

>Dora García, Coyolxauhqui, 2020 (installation view — She Has Many Names, 2023, M HKA)

Artist

> Dora García.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: She Has Many Names . M HKA, Antwerp, 10 February 2023 - 21 May 2023.

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