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Besides presenting historical and archival material, the exhibition will show pieces from artists that, during the last fifty years, have met Artaud’s work and celebrated his enigmatic experience in Mexico and, particularly in the Tarahumara culture. Beyond the chronological specificity that the exhibition's title would see to imply, Artaud 1936 follows a contrary impulse: sets out to eschew the historical boundaries of Artaud's travel through Mexico, in order to give an account of the timelessness of his experience, and to place it in a continuity with the work of several artists who …