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OHDIOS Carlos Aguirre
Opening: May 22, 2009 / 20:00 pm To: July 5, 2009

* With sound pieces, collage and drawings describes the handling in religious discourse
* A review of sexuality, homophobia, misogyny and the Catholic Church

Using a bibliography that includes books like eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven Uta Ranke-Heinemann and The Legion of Alejandro Espinosa, Carlos Aguirre addresses some of the contradictions and absurdities that religious discourse has produced throughout history in the sample Ohdios which opens on May 22, 2009 at 20:00 in Ex Teresa Arte Actual.

Framed by the seat of Ex Teresa Arte Actual, a Catholic church in the seventeenth century, this important artist revise the speech that many characters have handled the Catholic Church about sexuality, virginity, homophobia, pedophilia, misogyny, and that made the moral and ethical lives of thousands of believers.

The exhibition will include a series of light boxes bearing pieces of collage, combining drawings with phrases taken up in its original typography of Mexican and U.S. newspapers. In these works, letters and colors become textures; the words out of context and take on new meaning when combined together.

Among other pieces, the viewer will find phrases mounted neon signs, written by several saints and who are openly misogynistic as: "Some women are hungry for pleasure and are worse than animals." These statements hardly Catholics remember, Aguirre the light displays, making sure not to go unnoticed.

For much of his life Carlos Aguirre has collected an interesting series of articles, statements and briefing notes printed mass media. In this collection of 144 extracted the name reported as priests accused of pedophilia. These names in a robe embroidered in black to be part of this exhibition.

Aguirre's artwork has shown a particular interest in language and signs, the gap between words and their meanings, between words and their content. The most recurrent themes in the work of this important artist to emerge from the analysis and reporting of some cultural practices and policies that affect the individual. On display
Ohdios addresses the harmful manipulation of language specific religious and political discourse. Special mention should be an interactive piece, created in collaboration with visual artist Urs Graf, who is a software that combines random phrases spoken by priests, bishops and cardinals, video-projected on one wall of the exhibition.

The show also includes a portrait of who caricatured and dissected out alive leader of the Legionaries of Christ, Marcial Marcel. The image of this character who was considered by the Catholic Church "an example of pastoral work" occurs in a large format drawing pointillism which way to use names of pedophile priests and drawings of sperm to complete the portrait.

The text, data and names used in this exhibition are drawn from print, mainly: El Universal, Reforma, La Jornada, The New York Times and the weekly Proceso. Just as the books: Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven by Uta Ranke-Heinemann, The Hammer of the Witches of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger, The Whore of Babylon Fernando Vallejo, The Legion of Alejandro Espinosa Would Jesus Catholic? Rius, Michael Foucault's abnormal, the catechism of Ripalda Jerome and Intolerance book of essays, various authors.

The exhibition is open to the public Monday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00. Free admission and will be open until July 5, 2009. Ex Teresa Arte Actual. Licenciado Verdad 8 Centro Histórico next to the National Palace. Metro Zócalo. 5522 5522 2721 and 9093. www.exteresaarteactual.blogspot.com