For it's third group exhibition, the Dos Equis Series is focusing on the theme of Ithaca. The island of Ithaca is the home of the legendary Ullysses in the epic poem The Odyssey. After the Trojan War, Ullysses gets lost on his way home, an incident which results in a ten year voyage. Ithaca is a voyage, a search, an adventure, an experience, a revisiting...but above all it is the return to the source. A source that may be regarded in physical or metaphorical terms, such as the revisiting that one does with oneself over time.
With regards to the series, the concept of Ithaca can be seen in different ways. On the one hand it represents the transport of the work itself, which, born in Mexico, travels first to London, then passes through Edinburgh before returning home. On the other hand, the curatorial proposal of this project involves showing the work in different locations within the city of the exhibition, in order that the spectator might move between points of that city in order to make him or herself integral to the exhibition as a whole. In that way, the spectator becomes Ullysses lost in the city, who is looking to return home.
Beatriz Canfield
Curator