The Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG) inaugurated this Monday, June 5, the exhibition of the EMME pieces, which are awarded to those who win the Maguey Award for Best Film, Best Non-Gender Performance and the Jury Prize. The films participating in this competition are characterized by relating to themes of the LGBTQ+ community.
Traditionally, an artist is invited to intervene in the EMME statuettes and for this 38th edition, the theater producer Iván Sandoval at Cinemacanta and the Hilos Collective collaborated with a proposal within the framework of the Maguey Desaparecidxs Award motto.
“Every year in our country, people from our community are forcibly disappeared for the simple fact of being from the community. The pieces represent and pay tribute to our missing people,” shared Iván Sandoval, who for a month, together with his family, worked on the creation of the candles, under the direction and intervention of Hilos, an interdisciplinary collective brought together based on common interest. in social denunciation through textile supports.
Iván explained that “these pieces are of protest; Inside they have wicks, the wicks with which they burn the candles, and they are red because of the blood of all these people about whom we know nothing more. The knots that our allies from the Hilos collective wove with the wicks represent resistance and all the missing people in our country.”
In total, eight statuettes were made, of which six are a different color from the LGBTQ+ flag and two are monumental pieces weighing 45 kilograms: “they are the ones that we are going to light throughout the festival, on one of them the names of missing people and the other one has a meter of straw that comes out everywhere,” Iván shared.
The artist stated that the consumption of candles was “about the time of waiting for loved ones, and the flame of the candles symbolizes the hope of finding them.” And he closed by saying: “more than being an award, this year it is a tribute to our entire community that exists and resists and prevents the flame from ever being consumed.”
This exhibition can be visited in the lobby of the Cineteca in the Santander Complex, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free
