Text
Whenever I attempt to ‘analyse’ a text which has given me pleasure, it is not my ‘subjectivity’ I encounter but my ‘individuality,’ the given which makes my body separate from other bodies and appropriates its suffering or its pleasure: it is my body of bliss I encounter. And this body of bliss is also my historical subject; for it is at the conclusion of a very complex process of biographical, historical, sociological, neurotic elements (education, social class, childhood configuration, etc.) that I control the contradictory interplay of (cultural) pleasure and (non-cultural) bliss, and that I write myself as a subject at present out of place, arriving too soon or too late (this too designating neither regret, fault, nor bad luck, but merely calling for a non-site): anachronic subject, adrift.
Roland Barthes, ‘The Pleasure of the Text.’
Chōbunsai Eishi, ‘Hanaōgi of the Ōgiya,’ ca. 1794.
Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
I have published my work in English and Spanish.
For this reason, some of these references inevitably use Spanglish.
I hope the visitor can understand.
The Milk of Dreams, 2022, The Senses and Society, DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2022.2122952
Exhibition review of the 59th Venice Biennale The Milk of Dreams curated by Cecilia Alemani.
PhD.
Exhibition review, eroticism, queer art, indigenous bodies, trans bodies, Chiapas, Latin America, Mesoamerica, anachronism.
Exhibition review, anachronism, archive, feminism.
'Dr. Lakra at Kate MacGarry.' Art Nexus, Sept-Nov 2017, 92-93.
Exhibition review, myths, power, paganism, tattoos, Latin American art.
'Instruments of Contingency.' Obieg, Magazyn Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej, no. 5, 2017.
Article, art, philosophy, contingency, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw.
'Willys de Castro at Cecilia Brunson.' Art Nexus, Mar-May 2017, 92-93.
Exhibition review, Latin American art, Brazil, neo-concrete art.
'Gabriel de la Mora "Serial" at Timothy Taylor London.' Art Nexus, Jun-Aug 2016, 92-93.
Exhibition review, Latin American art, obsession, repetition.
'Juan Duque, "Brushing the city against the Grain," SASG – Seoul, South Korea,' 2015.
Exhibition review, Latin American art, displacement, time, ambivalence, Colombia.
'Diálogos en el vacío: Carlos Amorales y Rosana Schoijett.' El jolgorio cultural, January 2012.
Exhibition review, Lovecraft, shadows, darkness, Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Oaxaca, art and culture in Oaxaca.
'Daniel Guzmán: Una búsqueda por la oscuridad.' El jolgorio cultural, October 2011.
Exhibition review, dark matter, art and culture in Oaxaca.
'Identidad, fragmentos de la historia y soledad: Cai Guo-Qiang y "Espectrografías, memorias e historia" en el MUAC.' Lenguaraz, Literatura para no leer, 14 April 2011.
Exhibition review, idenitity, solitude, history, China, Mexico, mezcal, art and literature.
Curada por José Luis Barrios, Helena Chávez Mac Gregor, Pilar García , Sol Henaro y Jorge Reynoso.
'Parábolas de una generación, arte emergente mexicano.' Replica 21, 16 February 2010.
Article, art criticism, drawing, Mexican emergent art practices.
'El arte desafía tiempo y espacio: Documenta 2010.' Excelsior, 6 December 2010.
Cultural note, time and space, interview to Carolyn Christov Bakargier.
'Todo que ver con el amor: Paula Rego en entrevista.' Excelsior, 29 September 2010.
Interview, love, painting, narrative, feminism, MARCO Monterrey.
'La fenomenología de Apolo y Dafne.' Lenguaraz, Literatura para no leer 5, no. 17 (2009): 8-9.
Article, phenomenology, Ovid, Bernini, art and philosophy.
'Paul Graham, Destellos de posibilidad, MoMA, New York.' Replica 21, 25 May 2009.
Exhibition review, possibility, photography, publication, book-exhibition.
'Las huellas de Ana Mendieta.' Lenguaraz, Literatura para no leer 5, no. 18 (2009): 8-9.
Artist profile, footprints, female body, Latin America, Africa, nature, fire, water, earth, wind.
'Sueño taciturno: Odilón Redón.' Lenguaraz, Literatura para no leer 5, no. 19 (2009): 8-9.
Artist profile, decadent art, nineteenth century, dreams, melancholia.
'Dos estéticas de 1968: el diseño institucional y el graffiti callejero.' Replica 21, 2 October 2008.
Article, art criticism.
'Luces del pasado, ocaso del presente. Obras de Lozano-Hemmer, Heidrun Holzfeind y Guillermo Santamarina.' Replica 21, 28 November 2008.
Exhibition review, art criticism.
'La pintura: un presente fotografico para Jeff Wall.' Lenguaraz, Literatura para no leer 4, no. 16 (2008): 8-9.
Artist profile, photography, painting, art history.
etc...
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