Reading Trajectories of Transforming Mexican Identities Mexico City | Oaxaca | Chiapas (Mexico) 2018 Fragmented Reality. Reading Trajectories of Transforming Mexican Identities is a project that holds together public art and socio-cultural research, designated to generate a reflection on Mexican identity through the reading of specific territories. The project was co-authored by Cypriot artist twenty three and Italian curator Francesca Lacroce, and developed with the collaboration of the University UAM Azcapotzalco (Mexico City), dept. of Arts and Sciences for Design. It took place in Mexico from February to May 2018. Conceived as an itinerant residency from Mexico City to the states of Oaxaca and Chiapas, it aimed at putting into place a participatory process of narration finalized to the creation of mural interventions by twenty three. During the first phase, under the preliminary guidance of the UAM Azcapotzalco, a series of key places, organizations and figures were mapped – fragmented realities active in the arts and culture with a socially oriented background. A guiding thread across the project was to comprehend how socio-political movements mediated in understanding/transforming Mexican cultural identities. Therefore, 'engaged territories’ such as Oaxaca and Chiapas were selected as they are known for their struggles for social recognition undertaken by the “minoritarian majority” constituted by the different indigenous Amerindian communities. During the second phase, a series of artistic interventions and workshops were undertaken in heterogeneous areas along the route between Oaxaca and Chiapas. Each experience was unique as it was shaped according to geographical, biographical and cultural elements that distinguish each site, in agreement with the local entities that coordinated the projects. In the state of Oaxaca, two diverse communities were reached. With the mediation of IAGO, Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca (Oaxaca city), Fragmented Reality took part in the cultural festival of secondary schools of the mountain region of Oaxaca (Sierra Norte), in Santa María Tlahuitoltepec. This region is dwelled by the Mixe population, known for its music culture and for textile handicraft tradition. In this site, a mural was painted on one of the facilities of the camp-site and a stencil workshop was given to the young students. By proceeding towards south, it was approached an area called Costa Chica which is home to the Afro-Mexicans, a quite marginalised population of African descent. At the village of San Pedro Tututepec, invited by a local organisation active for the empowerment of Afro-Mexican women, urban art workshops were given to the youngest inhabitants and a mural was realised on the front wall of the building housing the municipality. In Chiapas, Fragmented Reality stopped in San Cristobal de las Casas and stayed at Junax, an organisation hosting and coordinating a wide international network of volunteers working in Chiapas within different fields and target groups. A mural was painted on the internal courtyard of Junax, paying homage to the fighting women of Chiapas, such as those militating in the Zapatista movement. With the purpose of giving account of the residency, but also to extend this reflection over the political implications of identity. Fragmented Reality was produced by “Torno Subito”, a grant program from Regione Lazio (Italy). The exhibition is supported by Cultural Service Cyprus.