Bio
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Born in Bilbao, Spain, lives between Spain and New York. In her many exhibitions in Spain, New York, Brazil, Germany, Mexico and Peru she has worked with video, photography, sculpture, sound and performance. She has done extensive work on the subject of boxing, exploring the differences between amateur Cuban boxing, and American professional boxing. This work has been presented in four solo shows, and five group shows using different media. Her most recent show was in NYC at the Bowery Poetry Club where she presented The Punch and Verse, a performance that integrates Allen Ginsberg's poem, Hum Bom! A boxing training session and contextual imagery. My work focuses on the legal body, the physical body, the territorial body and the politics of the body in the context of Western Culture. My work looks at how biology, politics, and social issues make marks, traces and wounds on the body. And for the last 10 years my work has described some of these marks and traces in the bodies of athletes. Paralympic/Olympic is about paralympic athletes, people who have outstanding performance records in sports but are marginalized in the Olympic games. For example, Olympic and Paralympic games have a separate Olympic symbol, motto and anthem, a separate Opening and Closing Ceremony, and a separate medal divide the two games. With my work I am trying to make these paralympic athlete's bodies and voices public. My goal is make the, part of our urban visual landscape so that they will be seen and visible and we can hear they have to say. |