Gallery in Mexico's Cuernavaca Spotlights the Art of Drug Consumption Reed Johnson - The Los Angeles Times
go to original July 3, 2013

A sculpture of a shaman's head covered in coca leaf powder is part of an exhibition on ancient and modern drug rituals in Cuernavaca, Mexico. (Sonia Sierra/El Universal)

When it comes to drug consumption, most everyone always takes the shortest route, Colombian artist Miguel Ángel Rojas tells the Mexico City newspaper El Universal.

Drug dealers and smugglers follow the path of least resistance because that's the easiest way to reach customers and make profits. Consumers take drugs because they view them as an express lane to happiness or to escape from mundane realities, Rojas suggests in an interview with the journal.

Hence the name of the new art exhibition, "El camino corto" (the short road or shortcut), at La Tallera Siqueiros in Cuernavaca, Mexico, which spotlights both ancient and modern artistic responses to and representations of the culture of drugs, specifically coca leaves and cocaine.

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