Celia Alvarez Muñoz by Roberto Tejada

Celia Alvarez Muñoz by Roberto Tejada is an in-depth and poetic look at the artistic journey of Alvarez Muñoz. Tejada’s take on Alvarez Muñoz’s career serves as an inspiring reflection of the artists success of incorporating her own culture, personal (adult & childhood) experience, and her civil/artistic responsibilities to shed on matters that await justice.
An exhibit that really moved me and I felt really strongly about was Fibra y Furia: Exploitation Is In Vogue 1999-2002. This exhibition, being the predecessor of an earlier work Fibra 1996, consisted of long fabric draped from the ceiling, visually expressive clothing and photographs of clothing, along with a large sandbox with women’s footwear of all kind laid out within the sandbox. On the wall in front of the sandbox was a photograph of a woman’s legs who had been murdered and left, a victim of the Juarez serial killings, along with actually testimony and a list of the women murdered from 1993-1995. The entire exhibit was to urge political action and mass media to actually cover the stories properly of the atrocities/murders that were occurring to women just across the border. The media had not covered the stories appropriately or even enough. Many people that saw this exhibit were actually informed by Alvarez Muñoz of what was actually happening. This work made me think about the atrocities that are continuing throughout Mexico and Latin America that are still not covered by the media and how artists can use their practice to inform the public and ignite political mobility.