debuted in Chicago<\/a> for the Puerto Rican People\u2019s Day Parade. Dallas is its first destination out of state. It will be parked outside the Contemporary through the fall. Later, it will head to Miami, Washington D.C. and New York City.<\/p>\nA different kind of monument<\/p>\n
“Dignidad\u201d is part of a series that reimagines who and what monuments are for by creating sculptures that can move throughout cities and represent people and communities who were rarely, if ever, cast in bronze or carved in stone.<\/p>\n
“We see a lot of monuments about men, military men, politicians. I’ve never seen a monument about an abuela, about a grandmother,” said Argote, who lives in Paris but was born in Columbia. <\/p>\n
“We were very close to making that monument [of an abuela], and then it was a year ago, after seeing all the aggression towards the Latino community that we said to ourselves that we needed to react in a more frontal, but also celebratory way.”<\/p>\n
Argote said the word dignidad is direct and needs little explanation. You don\u2019t need to speak Spanish to understand it.
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\u201cI think it’s the most human value we can have,\u201d he said. It\u2019s important to protect our own dignity and that of others.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomehow, nowadays, it feels almost revolutionary to claim our own dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Details: \u201cIvan Argote: How to Move a Monument on a Tuesday Morning\u201d opens on Oct. 3 and runs through Jan. 31 at Dallas Contemporary, 161 Glass St., Dallas. General admission is free with a suggested $10 donation. \u201cDignidad\u201d will be on view outside the Contemporary through the fall. <\/p>\n
Got a tip? Email Marcheta Fornoff at mfornoff@kera.org.<\/p>\n
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