The Mexican artist Fabián Cháirez said Thursday that he will soon exhibit his controversial exhibition “The coming of the Lord” in the Mexican capital, which was closed last week by order of a judge who granted an amparo to conservative groups that alleged “religious discrimination.”
“Now I am just closing dates with the place where I am thinking of exhibiting, but it will be very, very soon (…) I think that next week I will be giving more details,” said Cháirez.
The exhibition, open to the public since February 5 at the San Carlos Academy of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), was scheduled until March 7, but Judge Francisco Javier Rebolledo Peña ordered his closure on March 4 by granting an amparo to the Association of Christian Lawyers for alleged damage to religious honor.
However, the trial continued until Tuesday 11, when the judge himself declared inadmissible the suspension of the sample, since he had already finished and there was no evidence, Cháirez said.
“So, that makes the same judgment, because it does not continue,” he said.
However, Cháirez clarified that the amparos filed by this ultra -right group were “only an impediment to that exhibition at UNAM.”
“It’s not that they prevent me from being able to exhibit where I want, anywhere else,” he said.
In addition, the artist warned that at no time was he called for trial and to date still without being notified by a judge.
“It is alarming because that speaks of cooperation by conservative groups, as Christian lawyers, with this judge that gave them the provisional amparo,” Cháirez warned.
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He also warned that these types of characters “use faith to seek their personal benefit”, which “came to manifest aggressively” in their exhibition, because he considered that “that speaks of a posture that the truth horrifies me.”
“I do not speak of the people who went to pray, this type of demonstration seemed fantastic, but those who came to intimidate and with slogans in favor of the new right. In their social networks they declare themselves in favor of Donald Trump, of Meloni, of Milei, ”he said.
Therefore, the artist called on all social struggles to unite forces against these ideological currents that “will affect us all if they advance.”
Finally, Cháirez mentioned that “he does not miss” the controversy that has generated “the coming of the Lord”, and considered that the attempts of censorship to his work “The Revolution” or “Zapata in Heels” in 2019, surrounded him from the right people to be able to face this new attack.
He added that many people have offered his help in social networks, which makes him feel “with many hopes of humanity” against “these groups that threaten human rights.”
“The coming of the Lord” is composed of nine oils on canvas, works carried out between 2018 and 2023, where you can see scenes like cardinals licking a candle, a nun passing a rosary with his mouth to an angel off and a acolyte of knees in front of a bishop with a dove between his legs.
With EFE information
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