Did artists' collective cross the line at the Alamo?
Más Rudas' field trip to the Alamo didn't last long.
Shortly after the members of the Chicana arts collective arrived, dressed as an Aztec princess, a mariachi, the Virgen de Guadalupe and the Donkey Lady of San Antonio urban legend, they were asked by a guard to leave the premises.
“Got kicked out of the Alamo today,” Mari Hernandez posted on Facebook. “Apparently the Daughters of the Republic (of Texas) didn't want Más Rudas there.”
Alamo spokesman Tony Caridi said the group was expelled because of the costumes they were wearing and out of concern for public safety.
“I don't know what the guards were thinking, other than of the public safety and security of the other visitors to the shrine,” Caridi said. “These people were not ejected because of what they were representing or anything like that. What they were ejected for is that it was out of the norm.”
Their misadventure, captured on video, is part of “Más Triste San Antonio,” an installation at Unit B (Gallery) that explores the fantasy of Mexican American culture sold to tourists versus the reality lived by many in the city.
“Being kicked out of a place that is supposed to embody where we come from as residents of this city felt discouraging and hurtful, kind of in the same way we're trying to address in this show,” says Kristin Gamez . “The Alamo experience was exactly what we're trying to confront in this show.”
It is Más Rudas' first installation since “Operation Canis Familiaris,” an early 2010 piece at the Guadalupe Gallery that addressed the issue of strays and animal abuse. Not that the collective — currently made up of Hernandez, Gamez, Ruth Buentello and Sarah Castillo — hasn't been busy, logging in a residency at Slanguage in Los Angeles and an exhibit at Mexic-Arte in Austin in the meantime.
The title of the show comes from a popular expression that translates roughly to “more's the pity” and often is accompanied by a shake of the head or a sigh.
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