The artist Fabián Cháirez has summoned for this Friday, March 7 to a peaceful demonstration in response to the “censorship to her exhibition” The coming of the Lord ‘, which was closed by court order in its last week of exhibition at the Academy of San Carlos.
The exhibition, open to the public since February 5, was scheduled until March 7, but a judge ordered its closure, by granting an amparo to conservative groups that claimed that the works attempted against “religious freedom.”
In a statement, Cháirez explained that the provisional suspension was ordered on February 28 by Judge Francisco Javier Rebolledo Peña, of the Sixth Court of the District in Administrative Matters of the First Circuit, within the trial indirect amparo number 257/2025.
“This resolution at no time was notified personally, nor has a copy of the document been extended at the time of writing this statement, leaving me in total helplessness by not being called to this judicial process,” the artist warned.
Likewise, Cháirez claimed that -although the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) serves as the authority responsible for the exhibition -as creator of the work, he had to “be called to the amparo trial in reference, to make the corresponding defense” and not to see his “human right to freedom of expression” affected.
“The censorship imposed on my work is an act of intolerance that denies the possibility of discussing and finding new ways of interpreting our relationship with the divine. You cannot allow fear or dogma to dictate the limits of art, ”said Cháirez.
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Artist Fabián Cháirez protests ‘censorship’ to exhibition ‘the coming of the Lord’
In addition, the artist said that UNAM has not spoken about it and the people involved in the exhibition have not done so, which demonstrates “their lack of interest in instilling in the next generations of artists the defense of their work and free expression.”
Therefore, Cháirez called on a peaceful protest on the outskirts of the San Carlos Academy, in the center of Mexico City, against moral judgments or pressures that seek to “silence uncomfortable or disruptive visions.”
“Today is my work that is censored, but tomorrow it can be any other artistic manifestation that challenges established thought,” added the artist.
For its part, the organization of Christian lawyers, which filed the amparo, celebrated in its social networks the suspension of the exposure and support of the judge that “freedom of expression has as a limit that does not exceed and affect the reputation and human right of the honor of Catholics in their beliefs and symbols.”
‘The coming of the Lord’ is composed of nine oils on canvas, works carried out between 2018 and 2023, where Cháirez takes elements of sacred art and merges them with eroticism and sexuality, inspired by great artists such as French Angelic and Greco.
This is the second controversy in which the artist is involved, after the exhibition in 2019 of the picture ‘The Revolution’ or ‘Zapata in Tacones’, which reinterprets the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata from a homoerotic perspective, which generated manifestations for and against.
With EFE information.
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