ARTIST STATEMENT
CONTACT | LINKS
- “Bittersweet”
- Descripción
- “Por siempre joven”
- Descripción
- “Hoy he roto tus cartas”
- Descripción
- “Drawing of Man/Drawing of Woman”
- Descripción
- “Historias íntimas”
- Descripción
- “Recuerdo de nuestra boda”
- Descripción
- “120 Minutos de silencio”
- Descripción
- “Días especiales”
- Descripción
- “Preoccupation (Gray Hair)”
- Descripción
- “Dibujo de hombre/Dibujo de mujer”
- Descripción
- “Untitled (Rinse)”
- Descripción
- “In Memoriam”
- Descripción
- Serie “A flor de piel”
- Descripción
- Serie “Flores silvestres”
- “Wildflowers” Series
- “Abuela, madre, hija”
- “Grandmother, Mother, Daughter”
- “Retorno a la pubertad”
- “Return to Puberty”
- “Para verte mejor”
- “The Better to See You With”
- “Ái Spik Ínglish”
- Descripción
- “Para que nos recuerdes mejor”
- “To Remember Us Better”
- “Valentía y coraje”
- “Courage and Bravery”
- “Para besarte mejor”
- “The Better to Kiss You With”
- “Para acariciarte mejor”
- “The Better to Caress You With”
- “Bésame mucho”
- “Kiss Me Plenty”
- “Reddest Red”
- “Escudos”
- “Shields”
- Serie “Instalación en museos de arte”
- “Installation at Art Museums” Series
- “Encierro rosa”
- “Romance Imprisonment”
- “Título de propiedad”
- “Ownership Title”
- “La sombra”
- “The Shadow”
Print on Fabric (Detail)
Print on Paper
Días especiales
Special Days
New York, 2008
Print on Fabric:
Etching (2 colors)
Image Size: 6.25” x 6”
Full fitted sheet: 54” x 76” x 13”
Edition of 3, plus 1 Artist Proof
Print on Paper:
Silkscreen (2 colors)
Image Size: 6.25” x 6”
Paper Size: 11” x 14”
Rives Paper. Edition of 7
“Días especiales” is an introspective exploration of the female body, reflecting on the menstrual cycle. But rather than offering a negative connotation with the association of dirtiness and impurity of some cultures and religions, I want to cherish women’s bodies by exploring menstruation in a positive way.
The print consists of ten images inspired from medical books of microscopic samples of biopsies of vaginal tissue from different days of the menstrual cycle, and taken them as reference to draw onto each of the copper plates.
Cartas—De la serie “Historias íntimas” 
Reproductions of letters from my mother and both grandmothers sharing their stories
about their first menstruation.
Notes regarding prohibited foods during menstruation accompanied some of the treats
during the opening.
The video “Untitled (Rinse)” was shown in the bathroom with notes regarding
prohibition of washing your hair or taking a shower while women had their periods.
EXHIBITION DETAILS:
“Días especiales” (“Special Days”),
BBBP—Bronx Blue Bedroom Project, New York
December 6—29, 2008
With the installation “Días especiales” (“Special Days”) as the closing exhibition of the year at the Bronx Blue Bedroom Project, I wanted to give back the sense of bedroom to Blanka’s room.
The installation consist of a full-size sheet on a bed where I printed etchings inspired by medical books’ images of biopsies from different days of the menstrual cycle.
Accompanying the printed sheet were reproductions of letters from my mother and both grandmothers telling about their first menstruation. I asked them to share with me what they knew and how did they found out about it, if there was anything that was prohibited or any other curious thing that they remembered from those days…
EXHIBITION DETAILS:
“NoMAA Visual Arts Grantees Exhibition,”
The Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, New York
June 13—June 27, 2008
Curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado
“Dias Especiales”
“Special Days”
Installation on a chest of drawers of 3 fitted sheets with etchings printed on them.
Dimensions variable.
Etchings printed on fabric. The print consists of ten images inspired from medical books of microscopic samples of biopsies of vaginal tissue from different days of the menstruation cycle, and taken them as reference to draw onto each of the copper plates.
The printing of this project was made possible thanks to a grant from NoMAA, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, and the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone.
Photo: Ana Lilian Barrios
Photos: Andrea Aragón
EXHIBITION DETAILS:
“Tres artistas. Tres vivencias.”, 2do Salón Nacional del
Grabado, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Guatemala
February 5—March 19, 2008
Curated by Lucrecia Cofiño de Prera
Mattress Courtesy of Serta, Guatemala
“Dias Especiales”
“Special Days”
Installation of a full bed with etching printed on fitted sheet. Dimensions variable.
Etching printed on fabric. The print consists of ten images inspired
from medical books of microscopic samples of biopsies of vaginal tissue
from different days of the menstruation cycle, and taken them as reference
to draw onto each of the copper plates.