Ana Quiroz | Rasquache 2017-2021
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Rasquache 2017-2021

 

Rasquache is an artist residency and collective of artists in San Francisco Coapan, Cholula a community on the slopes of the Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl volcanoes in the state of Puebla in Mexico. Coapan, as everyone calls it, is a place like many in Mexico and in the world marked by migration. Currently more than half of Coapan’s population lives in the United States.
 

In 2017, I did an intervention with papel picado and flowers in some of the homes under construction, homes that are the symbols of the future return of the migrants. In 2019 I started a collective map of the town with help of the community and the artists in resemblance to prehispanic maps. The map also depicts by symbols of their names and last names in nahuatl using paint and embroidery. The embroidery was done by Chapis Amantecatl Cuatlacuatl from San Francisco Coapan.
 

 

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Community Projects