The museum did get some good news during the pandemic.
And I think Sam has really touched on this in a very unique way, where she talks about love, sort of a hidden love, at the end of time.” “And of course, with that comes ideas of secrecy, right? When someone passes away, they take with them all their secrets.
“The Day of the Dead has so many romantic ideas attached to it, of people coming home, of missing our loved ones,” said Moreno. She did one that has to do with love and stories behind closed doors - so kind of like the idea of secrets.”Īnd it ties deftly into the larger themes of the exhibition. The masks on some of his figures give “a familiar COVID feeling, but, of course, he’s talking about the environment.”Īnother striking new piece, he said, is by Chicago artist Sam Kirk: “She did a piece that, as usual, talks about the LGBTQ community within the Latino community. It’s a protest piece in favor of the residents of Little Village who are fighting the polluting corporations.” “But what he’s done is made it about the environment, specifically in Little Village and the air pollution over there. When you look at his work, it’s like, ‘Oh it’s a tree of life.’ He has taken the concept of ‘trees of life’ - and we have traditional trees of life in the very beginning of the exhibition - and you can recognize it. One new piece that stands out for Moreno, he said, is a contemporary installation with a political bent by Salvador Jiménez-Flores: "He’s a professor at the School of the Art Institute. Salvador Jiménez-Flores’ installation as part of "Sólo un Poco Aquí: Day of the Dead," presented by the National Museum of Mexican Art as a virtual exhibition this year.
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