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Minerva Cuevas | 'Utopista / quiauitl' at 'Siembra 18'

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Audra McClain

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Utopista / quiauitl\_FLAUNT.jpg ![Utopista / quiauitl_FLAUNT.jpg](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1616465281833-USEXUA7400NOIM3Q5A9L/Utopista+%2F+quiauitl_FLAUNT.jpg) Assembled together for the first is a collection of 22 posters created by artist Minerva Cuevas. Titled _Utopista / quiauitl_, the exhibtion is currently on display at the Kurimanzutto Gallery in Mexico City. Some of the collection’s pieces were created to be viewed in exhibitions, others were created to be seen in the street and some of the pieces are being viewed by the public for the first time. Concepts of contemporary colonial relations, exploitation, nationalism, social ecology, militarism, and equality are explored throughout the collection. The posters play on advertising, slogans, logos and popular references and in turn provokes questions and reflect Cuevas intent to ‘construct new realities grounded in collective resistance.’ “A poster is the thin surface that supports the weight of an intention, it is that minimal support loaded with history and context that is in turn an access point to memory and to our personal visual archive,” Cuevas remarks. Utopista / quiauitl\_FLAUNT.jpg ![Utopista / quiauitl_FLAUNT.jpg](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1616465530501-FW29KXLTG6FZ3DVYOO57/Utopista+%2F+quiauitl_FLAUNT.jpg) Utopista / quiauitl\_FLAUNT.jpg ![Utopista / quiauitl_FLAUNT.jpg](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1616465564120-YVSL2OUJZSVWELD32H43/Utopista+%2F+quiauitl_FLAUNT.jpg)