After a vote that took place during the second weekend of August, the design of the monumental ofrenda for the Zócalo 2025, on the occasion of the Day of the Dead, was announced.
With more than 12 thousand votes, the winning ofrenda was “Encuentro entre voces, poemas, peregrinaje, historia y tradición” (Encounter between voices, poems, pilgrimage, history and tradition). According to a bulletin from Mexico City’s Ministry of Culture, this ofrenda reinterprets the pilgrimage of Aztlán for the construction of Tenochtitlán.
Tonantzin will be seen summoning an offering to bid farewell “to the souls of the warriors who dreamed, built and fought in the time of Mexico-Tenochtitlan”, as detailed in the document.
This offering was designed by the collective Zion Art Studio, which has participated in other projects such as the Insecta Festival in the Chapultepec Forest. In the model shown in the Zócalo it can be seen that the offering will have representations of chinampas, corn and different animals.
Even a couple of Xoloitzcuintles figures can be seen in the mock-up. It should be remembered that this year the ofrenda has a theme referring to the 700 years of Mexico-Tenochtitlan.
When will the Zócalo 2025 monumental ofrenda be installed?
This ofrenda is already a tradition and is part of the activities related to the Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico City.
This time you can visit it from October 25 to November 2 in Mexico City’s Zócalo. To select this year’s ofrenda, first a call was made and then a citizen consultation. What do you think of this year’s design?