Casa de México Foundation in Spain, within the framework of ARCO, presents for the first time in Spain the Jumex Collection, one of the most important contemporary art collections in Latin America.
We Were Happy and We Didn't Know It is an evocative portrait of one of the most vibrant periods of contemporary art in Mexico. The exhibition showcases the work of twenty-eight artists , some Mexican by birth and others by choice. 65 video, installation, photography and sculpture works are on display
The curatorial discourse of Ixel Rion Lora aims to offer the visitor a reading of contemporary art in Mexico in the nineties , covering almost two decades of production, from the mid-nineties to the first ten years of the new millennium. It proposes a journey as a tribute to the youthful excesses that led to artistic creation in the urban fabric of Mexico.
The exhibition is divided into five cores that present thematic axes of great importance during the nineties for the development of contemporary art in Mexico: the city, space, social context, identity, and material. The exercise of bringing together work spanning almost twenty years of production is, for the viewer, a visual change in the transition that was experienced.