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I am a nomadic Mexican artist, weaver of encounters, curator, and healer of Nahuatl, Asturian, and Mexican blood. Since 1976, I have searched and found myself once and again. I am tied to art, and thus I avoid shipwreck. Everything I know has come to me through intuition and persistence, necessity and desire, search, and discovery. My path led me through the complex paths of ceramics to dock in primitive simplicity. Digital technologies that are an opportunity to manipulate dreams, ritual axions, the invoking words, the objects-symbols, and installations that create alternate states, interventions appropriating the space, images that are memory, and voices that question us.

I gave birth to Amadís and Alonso, but I also have the drive to invent multiple long-term projects that favor participatory processes. My artwork has reached streets, forests, squares, volcanoes, museums, universities, and cultural centers; it has been shown and made in closed, public, and wild spaces in the Americas, the two Europes, Japan, Australia, and China, a country with which I have a close relationship.

I found and still direct 5célula, arte y comunidad, an NGO aimed at generating artistic projects at the international level, such as the Festival of Chinese Video Artists. I am an honorary member of the National System of Art Creators (Mexico) and have obtained scholarships and residences that both encourage and feed my being and my doing.

My practice explores how human identity relates to nature, transmigration, historical and postcolonial myth and ritual, and how all this intertwines in variegated territories that look for empathic flows of action and thought in this liquid world.

My work inquires how mythologies create mental structures while strengthening the dominant powers and how social resistance is a balancing energy that creates deep changes and new sustainable myths, constantly designing society.

An important purpose of my work is to deal with community interactivity and the co-creation of poetic-artistic action in a social and natural medium able to expand traditional art spaces.

My practice therefore evolves through a constant development of intertwined diverse and multiple actions, with feminism as a cross-line
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For me, everything is artwork.

 

 

 
 
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