Happiness
Miriam Medrez
Opening
March 30, 6-8 pm
Exhibition Dates
March 30 – April 21, 2018
Venue
1824 Spring St, Houston TX 77019
Forma110 is pleased to present Happiness, an exhibition featuring the newest works from Mexican artist, Miriam Medrez, which consist of a series of 14 black fabric and white lace sculptures. The exhibition opens Thursday March 28, with a reception for the artist from 6 to 8pm.
Miriam Medrez
“Untitled”
Black fabric and white lace
2018
Miriam Medrez
“Untitled”
Black fabric and white lace
2018
The search for Happiness carries with it a sign of privilege: yoga instruction as a way of expanding consciousness and spirituality has developed, in the western world, as the image of the woman that has the means to achieve her inner peace. These sculptures represent the body and its spirituality as it has been understood in contemporary culture, and in particular inside the experience of the women that can afford the luxury of exploring themselves in these areas.
Miriam Medrez
“Untitled”
Black fabric and white lace
2018
Miriam Medrez
“Untitled”
Black fabric and white lace
2018
Miriam Medrez
“Untitled”
Black fabric and white lace
2018
Miriam Medrez
“Untitled”
Black fabric and white lace
2018
Such representation had to be black, since the body in western society begs to be void in order to achieve transcendental meaning, such a transcendence had to be written in white since the soul that reverbs and overflows its body is like a mantra, both silence and expansion, lace overlapping and stepping over its shadow. These sculptures are therefore the criticism and the acknowledgment of yoga as a practice that allows us to explore dimensions of ourselves that our society hinders, and at the same time, ironically, a practice that is out there for sale by the same society.
Miriam Medrez
“Untitled”
Black fabric and white lace
2018
Miriam Medrez
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Black fabric and white lace
2018
These are the reasons why it had to be sculpture and in black and white fabrics. Because only sculpture is a language fair to talk about the body, and because only fabrics are as fluent and flexible as are the soul and body relations. Only black and white could show such a contrast.
Miriam Medrez
“Untitled”
Black fabric and white lace
2018
Miriam Medrez
“Untitled”
Black fabric and white lace
2018
Miriam Medrez
“Untitled”
Black fabric and white lace
2018
Miriam Medrez
“Untitled”
Black fabric and white lace
2018
Within contemporary Mexican art, Miriam Medrez is an established artist whose interdisciplinary practice hast taken place over three decades. Medrez was born in Mexico City in 1958 and studied Plastic Arts at the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico). A renown sculptor, she received the “Artistic Creator” award in 2010 from the National Systems of Art Creators in Mexico. That triennial stimulus coincides with the reposting of her sculpture activity, which causes her to explore and later move her aesthetic discourse from clay to cloth.
Miriam Medrez
“Untitled”
Black fabric and white lace
2018
Miriam Medrez
“Untitled”
Black fabric and white lace
2018
Public collections include UDLAP collection (Puebla, Mexico), Modern Art Museum (Mexico City), MARCO Museum (Monterrey, N.L), Amparo Museum (Puebla, Mexico), Monterrey Museum (Monterrey, N.L), Casa Candina (Puerto Rico), Keramik Museum Grimeerhaus (Denmark), FEMSA collection (Monterrey, N.L), Jingdezhen Ceramic Cultural Center (Jiangxi Province, China), Reyes Meza Museum (Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas).
Exhibit and opening night. Miriam Medrez “Happiness”