Founded in 2017 at the MUAC’s Centro de Documentación Arkheia, the Visualities and HIV in Mexico Collection seeks to study, identify and gather cultural and visual practices linked to the appearance of this pandemic in the country. Its objective is to halt the dissolution of the critical memory around HIV and to generate a repository, partial by necessity, that recovers the productions of activists, artists and the civil society.
Ever since the early eighties, but above all in the nineties, important initiatives were undertaken such as Letra S [Letter S], Un Día sin Artistas [A Day Without Artists], 100 Artistas contra el Sida [One Hundred Artists Against Aids] and the Veladas por Muertos de Sida [Wakes for Aids Victims] among others, records of which are widely scattered and are not always circulated in the public sphere. This investigation can be added to other projects in recent years that narrate the itineraries of HIV, such as the Anarchivo SIDA [Aids Anarchive] by the Grupo Re [Re Group] or the chivo expiatorio: sida + violencia + acción [Scapegoat: aids + violence + action], organized by Eugenio Echeverría, who have led to public programs and exhibitions on this issue.
Having concluded the first stage of assembling this collection, a second stage is planned to receive projects that can be added to the archive.
AVE de México
Alejandro Brito
Playboy Condoms México
Gabriel Figueroa Flores
Omar Gamez
José Arturo Granados Cosme
Sol Henaro
César Jerónimo
Bernando Adrián López Aguirre,
Luis Matus
Rocío Noemí Martínez
Josué Quino, Teatro y Sida A.C
Dr. Gustavo Reyes Terán
Rafael Sámano Roo
Mónica Zacarías Najjar