Abstraction in Action Abstraction in Action: ARCOmadrid 2014 https://abstractioninaction.com/happenings/abstraction-action-arcomadrid-2014/

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ARCOmadrid 2014
19–23 February 2014
Halls 7 & 9, Feria de Madrid
Booth 7H02
Madrid, Spain

Abstraction in Action presents its online platform at an institutional booth during the fair, allowing visitors to interact with the database while gaining a deeper understanding of the project and the artists involved. The website will launch a new “Projects” section during the fair, featuring exhibitions, site-specific installations, and events that AIA has produced. Along with that, AIA features new artists:

Leyla Cárdenas (Colombia, 1975), John Mario Ortiz (Colombia, 1973), G. T. Pellizzi (Mexico, 1978), Rosario López Parra (Colombia, 1970), Macaparana (Brazil, 1952), Fidel Sclavo (Uruguay, 1960), KIRIN (Argentina, 1953), Bernardo Corces (Argentina, 1988), Eduardo Santiere (Argentina, 1962), Georgina Santos (Mexico, 1988), Santiago Reyes Villaveces (Colombia, 1986), Rodrigo Sassi (Brazil, 1981), Nicolás Lamas (Peru, 1980), Nicolás Consuegra (Colombia, 1976), María Ezcurra (Argentina, 1973), Jorge Pedro Núñez (Venezuela, 1976), Jaime Ruiz Otis (RUIZCYCLE) (Mexico, 1976), Gabriel Acevedo Velarde (Peru, 1976), Edwin Monsalve (Colombia, 1984), Chiara Banfi (Brazil, 1979), Barbarita Cardozo (Colombia, 1975), Ana Belén Cantoni (Peru, 1983), Óscar Figueroa (Costa Rica, 1986), and Silvana Lacarra (Argentina, 1962)

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February 25, 2014 María Ezcurra https://abstractioninaction.com/artists/maria-ezcurra/
Translated from Spanish

In my work, I use textiles—basically clothing—in order to explore a series of social and personal stereotypes, as well as their relationship with specific cultural codes, by reviewing and reflecting on the current and complex normative structures which define us and from which we participate. A great part of my work involves an analysis on the physical, emotional and social restrictions that are associated with gender roles, in particular feminine stereotypes. With my work, I do not only play with the material and formal possibilities of textile, but I also explore the aesthetic, symbolic, and cultural values of garments, based on deconstruction, re-contextualization or re-aggrupation models which put in evidence the social expectations that they intend to exhibit or cover. Thus I want to make visible the complex and often contradictory relationships we have constructed between the social and the individual, protection and image, beauty and comfort, violence and indifference, men and women, and all the ambiguous intermediate qualities which constitute us but do not necessarily define us.

 

En mi trabajo uso textiles—básicamente ropa—para explorar una serie de estereotipos sociales y personales, así como su relación con ciertos códigos culturales, revisando y reflejando las complejas estructuras normativas actuales que nos definen y en la que todos participamos. Gran parte de mi obra implica una reflexión sobre las restricciones físicas, emocionales y sociales asociadas a roles de género, particularmente a los estereotipos femeninos. Con mis piezas no sólo juego con las posibilidades materiales y formales de los textiles, sino que exploro los valores estéticos, simbólicos y culturales de las prendas de vestir, basándome en procesos de deconstrucción, recontextualización o reagrupación que evidencian las expectativas sociales que intentan exhibir, o cubrir. Quiero evidenciar así las complejas, y a veces contradictorias, relaciones que hemos creado entre lo social y lo individual, la protección y la imagen, la belleza y la comodidad, la violencia y la indiferencia, los hombres y mujeres, y todas las ambiguas cualidades intermedias que sutilmente nos forman sin necesariamente definirnos.

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February 19, 2014