Mariana Xochiquétzal Rivera García She has a PhD in Anthropological Sciences from the UAM-I and a Master in Visual Anthropology from FLACSO-Ecuador. She is currently a researcher at the Directorate of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the INAH and works as a documentary maker and freelance photographer. He works around visual anthropology on topics such as memory, documentary and ethnographic cinema, and more recently on transmedia narratives. She is the author of various articles specialized in visual anthropology, as well as photographic essays. She is also the director of the documentaries Sueños de Mayo (2011), Escribiendo sobre el lolar (2013), Telares Sonoros (2014), We paint ourselves alone (2014), The thread of memory (2016), Huellas para la memoria (2016) , and his most recent documentary feature Se va la vida, compañera (2018), a project carried out with the DOCTV Latin America stimulus in its VI edition. Also noteworthy are his short musical documentaries, as well as video clips under the label of the production company Urdimbre Audiovisual.

EncArtes multimedia

The thread of memory

The thread of memory desde Mariana rivera garcia on Vimeo.

  • Mariana Xochiquétzal Rivera García

During three months a tour of Mexico was made with the exhibition entitled Weaving with the thread of memory: stitches of dignity in the midst of war; It showed the work of a collective of Colombian weavers made up of women survivors of the armed conflict. Through weaving they have told their stories, denouncing the injustices and violence they have suffered. The exhibition was shared with groups of weavers from Mexico City, Guerrero and Chiapas; at the same time, weaving and memory workshops were given and an audiovisual exhibition was held. The thread of memory is a documentary that follows the route of the exhibition in its journey through Mexico, it reflects on the bridges that are woven between collective creation, creativity and the transforming potential of the reality that shared spaces have to tell and weave.