Z’otz* Collective (Nahúm Flores, Erik Jerezano, Ilyana Martínez) : Mulling over the Scenery

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Z’otz* Collective (Nahúm Flores, Erik Jerezano, Ilyana Martínez), "Mulling Over the Scenery," 2018

Artist Talks / Q&A with Z’otz* Collective and Carlos Colín September 14 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm, Thompson Rivers University. Free

Join us for Artist Talks followed by Q&A’s featuring Z’otz* Collective and Carlos Colín as they discuss their work in relation to cultural barriers, enhancements and biases, including what it means to be refugees in a world of migration.

Art-Making Workshop- Cultural Stories September 15 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm, Arnica Artist-Run Centre

Free

An important part of the Z’otz* Collective’s exhibition process is to engage with the communities that view their work, through a series of artist talks and workshops. While they create the wall work in the gallery, they are available to talk about their work so viewers can get a “behind the scenes” look at the process. Anyone, school age to adults, can take part in Cultural Stories, the workshop that deals with collaborative art making.Participants will form small groups and together create a series of mixed media works on paper, each person having collaborated on every piece done by the group. All necessary supplies will be provided.

Opening Reception

Z’otz* Collective: Mulling over the Scenery & Carlos Colín: Embroideries

September 15 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm, Arnica Artist-Run Centre,Free

Stop by Arnica Artist-Run Centre to see the show. Nahúm Flores, Erik Jerezano, Ilyana Martínez and Carlos Colín will be on-site to give you a guided tour of their pieces and answer any questions that you might have. Complimentary appetizers and refreshments will be served.

The Z’otz* Collective (Nahúm Flores, Erik Jerezano, Ilyana Martínez) examine Latin American immigrant experiences of displacement, transition and transformation, inviting community to participate in the generation of new stories.

Z’otz* Collective works as an intuitive symbiotic unit who will create an ephemeral drawing installation in Arnica along with the exhibition of works on paper and terra cotta sculptures in found nichos. They are intrigued by the idea of a niche as a space “in which to nest”, a place to incubate, collect, investigate, and share stories.

The three-day installation and their proposed half-day workshop seek to include community members in the process of creation, through discussion and collecting found objects for the gallery installation and, secondly, in the workshop to explore cultural hybridity and collaborative myth re-making.

Z’otz* is the Mayan word for “bat”