ProjectApril 30, 2020
Carlos Amorales creates a special project collaboration connecting the art world for a good cause
Artist Carlos Amorales in collaboration with kurimanzutto gallery in Mexico have started a project to aid in the protection of those who work in the informal economies of Mexico City.
Through a system of unified sewing workshops and collaborative distribution by the NGO WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing & Organizing), and fundraising by kurimanzutto, 3,500 reusable masks will be distributed per week among different sectors of workers in public spaces.
For the production of these masks, Amorales has collaborated with designer Janet Martínez, who has worked with him for 7 years, and who maintains relationships with clothes manufacturing professionals. The creation of these mouth covers reactivates the economy of various sewing workshops located in Chimalhuacán, Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl and Ecatepec – family businesses that due to the virus need to maintain their economic activity.
For the distribution of the masks, an alliance was established with WIEGO . Hereby maintaining links to different sectors of society, such as shoe shiners, magazine vendors, musicians, craft vendors, public cleaning service providers, and domestic workers who cannot afford to stop working and thereby remain at risk of contagion, these will be the main beneficiaries of the project.
Amorales opened this project to people close to the art community to create a chain of solidarity that connects collectors, gallerists, artists and their assistants with sewing workshops, NGOs, and people in need of protection. In this sense, they each compose a working network of collaboration, support, and protection that becomes visible through this community chain.
Each week, a different benefactor is invited to donate 35,000 pesos in order to finance the production of 3,500 masks that will be distributed for free.
For more information on Carlos Amorales’ initiative, please contact
Julia Villaseñor: julia@kurimanzutto.com
Through a system of unified sewing workshops and collaborative distribution by the NGO WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing & Organizing), and fundraising by kurimanzutto, 3,500 reusable masks will be distributed per week among different sectors of workers in public spaces.
For the production of these masks, Amorales has collaborated with designer Janet Martínez, who has worked with him for 7 years, and who maintains relationships with clothes manufacturing professionals. The creation of these mouth covers reactivates the economy of various sewing workshops located in Chimalhuacán, Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl and Ecatepec – family businesses that due to the virus need to maintain their economic activity.
For the distribution of the masks, an alliance was established with WIEGO . Hereby maintaining links to different sectors of society, such as shoe shiners, magazine vendors, musicians, craft vendors, public cleaning service providers, and domestic workers who cannot afford to stop working and thereby remain at risk of contagion, these will be the main beneficiaries of the project.
Amorales opened this project to people close to the art community to create a chain of solidarity that connects collectors, gallerists, artists and their assistants with sewing workshops, NGOs, and people in need of protection. In this sense, they each compose a working network of collaboration, support, and protection that becomes visible through this community chain.
Each week, a different benefactor is invited to donate 35,000 pesos in order to finance the production of 3,500 masks that will be distributed for free.
For more information on Carlos Amorales’ initiative, please contact
Julia Villaseñor: julia@kurimanzutto.com
