Loom Tales
Museo de Arte de Zapopan•Aug 03, 2025 — Jan 04, 2026
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For thousands of years there has existed in China a literary genre known as zhiguai xiaoshuo, which might be translated as “tales of the uncanny.” The term refers to fantastical stories of strange and supernatural happenings that contain an extraordinary mixture of fiction and reality. This genre is the starting point of a recent project by artist Chantal Peñalosa Fong. The narratives of her creations unfold on the threshold between imagination and reality, in a state of tension between lived history and memories, halfway between a blurred past and the present moment. The stories of her works interweave experiences in which different time frames coexist and the faculty of memory shapes the present in order to give it new meaning.
In this exhibition, the artist has focused on the phenomenon of Chinese immigration to Mexico, drawing on the history of her own ancestors and personal family traumas, as well as the testimony of the hegemonic official version and the existence of a xenophobic…
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Loom Tales
Museo de Arte de Zapopan•Aug 03, 2025 — Jan 04, 2026
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For thousands of years there has existed in China a literary genre known as zhiguai xiaoshuo, which might be translated as “tales of the uncanny.” The term refers to fantastical stories of strange and supernatural happenings that contain an extraordinary mixture of fiction and reality. This genre is the starting point of a recent project by artist Chantal Peñalosa Fong. The narratives of her creations unfold on the threshold between imagination and reality, in a state of tension between lived history and memories, halfway between a blurred past and the present moment. The stories of her works interweave experiences in which different time frames coexist and the faculty of memory shapes the present in order to give it new meaning.
In this exhibition, the artist has focused on the phenomenon of Chinese immigration to Mexico, drawing on the history of her own ancestors and personal family traumas, as well as the testimony of the hegemonic official version and the existence of a xenophobic…
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