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A volar entre rocas

On an orange background, bold white sans-serif text outlined in black communicates exhibition details of name, artist, and opening/closing dates. Below the text, a landscape image features a wall comprised primarily of dark grey rocks. The dark grey rocks may be lava rocks, and intermingled among them are a few lighter rocks and numerous orange-brown bricks in a large concentric formation, outlining the arc created by intersecting windows at the top left of this wall image. There are some plants visible at bottom right. Moss appears behind green leaves that contain white striations throughout, which contrast starkly with the green.

Exhibition Title: A volar entre rocas

Artist: Mariana Muñoz Gomez.

Opening: Thursday, September 18 | 6 PM to 8 PM.

Exhibition Dates: September 18 to November 1, 2025.

A volar entre rocas is an intimate processing of self, relation to place, and migration. Aspects of memory and home are raised alongside questions about land, place, and power. Mariana Muñoz Gomez brings their two homes on opposite ends of Turtle Island into relation with one another through an engagement with the natural and social histories surrounding Tyndall stone and volcanic rock as vessels of time, embodiments of movement, witnesses to history, and links between distant places. A volar entre rocas compares and contrasts experiences and knowledge surrounding the artist’s two homes by exploring feelings derived from diaspora, including considerations of memory, movement, reaching, and belonging.

Mariana developed this body of work through what they describe as a diasporic introspection: noticing when experiences in one home reminded them of another; spending time with photographs, videos, memories; and researching their homeland on the internet.

This exhibition is supported by the Manitoba Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.

About the artist

Mariana Muñoz Gomez is a Mexican artist, writer, and curator based in Winnipeg, Manitoba on Treaty 1 Territory. Their art practice is often lens-based, involving a variety of media including text, screen prints, video art, and photography. Their practice explores place, identity, and language, and how these topics intersect with coloniality, temporality, and relationality. Mariana has been involved with various Winnipeg collectives and they are currently a managing co-editor of Carnation Zine. They were longlisted for the New Generation Photography Award in 2023.

Visit Mariana’s website at www.marianamunoz.ca 

Events

Artist Talk with Mariana Muñoz Gomez.

Friday, September 19 | 12 PM to 1 PM.

Join us at the Aboriginal Gathering Place located on the main floor of Emily Carr University of Art and Design at 520 E 1st Ave! Please contact communications@grunt.ca to coordinate access needs or ask questions.

Stay tuned for updates regarding an open call for a two-day workshop with paid honorarium for BIPOC, as well as further information for a gathering “Calling Creatives de las Américas and the Caribbean”, taking place at grunt on September 24!

Bold white sans-serif font outlined in a dark red-brown promotes Mariana’s artist talk with details of date, time, and location included in the caption of this post. At the very bottom is smaller text reading, “Presented with support from the” above a series of white logos including the Aboriginal Gathering Place, grunt gallery, the Manitoba Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts. The background is an orange wall brightly lit in a gallery space with a worn wood floor and white trim. On the gallery floor at bottom, are single Tyndall stones located at left, and right. They appear to have a warm beige colour. On the orange wall background at the right of centre frame, is a square image featuring a wall made up of dark grey stones with leafy plants including a pink flower There is a red-brown brick floor in the image’s background. This photo of Mariana Muñoz Gomez’s work was taken by Darren Rigo.]

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