CULTIVO NATIVO
s.o.s. EXHIBITION - GALERIA SECRETA
GALERIA SECRETA MX, MERIDA CITY, MEXICO. JUNE 2022.
Photos by Alejandro Gamboa
Cultivo Nativo (Native Crop) is a performance artwork part of a series (including "Pop Life") that calls for attention to a global issue; the imminent risk of corn seed to disappear due to the abandonment of the Mexican countryside with little interest of young Mexican rural generations to continue preserving the original seeds.
Alejandro wears a tuxedo while he performs grinding organic native corn seeds from Yucatan and making a dough by hand to make tortillas. His intention was to portray the Mexican aristocracy doing something unthinkable for them, a tradition that remains only in the original people of Mexico.
This performance is about paying attention to the bad quality of tortillas (with added artificial colorants, flavor and bindings) that are responsible for diminishing people’s health in Mexico where the majority of the population are consumers who do not know how to make tortillas or distinguish the quality of corn.
Alejandro wears a tuxedo while he performs grinding organic native corn seeds from Yucatan and making a dough by hand to make tortillas. His intention was to portray the Mexican aristocracy doing something unthinkable for them, a tradition that remains only in the original people of Mexico.
This performance is about paying attention to the bad quality of tortillas (with added artificial colorants, flavor and bindings) that are responsible for diminishing people’s health in Mexico where the majority of the population are consumers who do not know how to make tortillas or distinguish the quality of corn.
