302:, a digital animation of drawings on pencil with blue watercolour, is an emotional landscape destined to die in the same way that glaciers are temporal. The views of Argentina's Patagonia region replicate landscapes from the artist's own life: her widowhood and motherhood, as well as the passing of her father and siblings. By digitally “animating” these drawings, the characteristic principle of the landscape is subverted. In animation, the different shapes and compositions seem to move as they are presented in a sequence and in shots that turn and are juxtaposed, while the accompanying music provides the rhythm for the motion.
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264:, Centre National de Création Musicale in Paris, (2011), among others. In addition, she participated in the 5th Ibero-American Art Biennial, (1986); at the Third Monterrey Biennial, (1996), and at the V Biennial of Standards, in Tijuana, Baja California, (2008). She has been a beneficiary of the National System of Creators of the National Council for Culture and the Arts since 1994, and she won the Artist's Book Award with the book
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during the time. Lara says that she became a feminist thanks to her mother, and painted flowers because her mother and grandmother did that together; her desire in this show, she adds, is to tell stories not so much from the platform of the female body, but from the experience of a body that has seen
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Lara's style has been acclaimed for its uniqueness, one critic has written that her work "is unmistakable and, as is obvious, persists in technically refining and polishing certain thematic aspects, but it is very curious to see that evolutionary process develop within the universe that she has long
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As well as an emphasis on the feminine form, her art also focuses on the role of nature and the interactions humans have with it. What prevails is an organic element that is founded not only in vitality, but also in calmness. Her work is an exercise of the deep understanding of and participation in
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is an animation of the photographs Magali Lara made of herself as she drew them. It is inspired by the
Alzheimer's her mother suffered for six years. Lara has revealed that her mother was able to recognise her on sight, but lacked the words to name her; once, before all her words were lost, she
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called her “cousin”. The music in the animation (Javier Torres
Maldonado) represents the internal voices of a female character engaged in an activity as banal as leaving work and returning home. Tying loose ends, I discover that there are many bodies in this show: not present, but alluded to.
134:(UNAM) and the UDLAP Art Collection. She is considered a leading figure in the feminist contribution of the Mexican contemporary art movement. Lara has produced works as both an essayist and a visual artist. In her autobiographical writing, she describes her work as follows:
338:. Her work has been influenced by her personal experiences as a woman in the 1970s feminist movements in Mexico and wider Latin American region. She has written that animation as a medium allows her the opportunity to represent the experiences of the feminine body.
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Ediciones Acapulco and is a counsellor for Casa del Lago, which belongs to the UNAM. Her interest in artist books is well-known. She organised several artist book shows for the
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since the 70s. time, her work has been enriched with the experimentation of techniques, but her ideas in relation to language, body, intimacy and desire have not changed and that is where the concept behind her work resides.
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The Age of Discrepancy: Art and Visual Culture of Mexico 1968-1997
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