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Artist from Pinotepa takes part in Afro-Mexican exhibition in Madrid

Alberta Hernández, from El Tamal in Santiago Pinotepa Nacional, is taking part in Madrid in the Gráfica Cimarrón exhibition with works about Afro-Mexican peoples of Oaxaca and Guerrero.

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Representative image of Oaxaca's Costa region: La laguna Ventanilla, en el estado mexicano de Oaxaca, se ubica entre Puerto Escondido y las famosas playas de Mazunte y Zipolite.
Representative imageRepresentative image of the Costa region; not a photograph of the reported event.Credit: Fraguando / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · License: CC BY-SA 4.0

Visual artist Alberta Hernández, originally from the community of El Tamal, in Santiago Pinotepa Nacional, Oaxaca, is taking part in an art exhibition in Madrid, Spain, with works about the culture, identity, and traditions of Afro-Mexican peoples of Oaxaca and Guerrero.

The exhibition

Known as Bety, the coastal artist is part of the exhibition Gráfica Cimarrón (Afro-Mexican Art), a space aimed at giving international visibility to the cultural expressions of Afro-Mexican communities.

Origin and training