Before the Eclipse looks back at art made in Mexico between 1981 and 1991 through archaeology, ecology, popular culture and the country’s move toward globalisation. I like the use of archaeology as a metaphor for such a recent period. We normally dig through centuries. Here only a few decades are enough to reveal that ideas about national identity can become historical layers surprisingly quickly.
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museotamayo.org Before the Eclipse Jun 10, 2026 - Oct 18, 2026
Everyone remembers the wave in Hokusai’s Under the Wave off Kanagawa, yet Mount Fuji may be the more curious detail. Japan’s enormous mountain is reduced to a small triangle beneath a temporary wall of water. Hokusai reverses the expected hierarchy: the permanent becomes tiny while a moment becomes monumental. The wave will collapse. Fuji will remain. The image makes us feel the opposite.