links
[ESP/ENG] Van Every/Smith Galleries & CCU Tlatelolco in conversation with Lorena Mal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxWSCrpJDZw
[ESP] 'Lorena Mal: en los intersticios del archivo', por Ainhoa Suárez Gómez, revista Nexos 2022
[ESP] Entrevista/Studio visit GasTV 2019
[ESP] Modos de oír. Prácticas de arte y sonido en México. Archivo abierto: https://modosdeoir.inba.gob.mx/
bio
Lorena Mal (n.1986, Ciudad de México)
'El trabajo de Mal combina medios heterogéneos como sonido, video, escultura, fotografía, y performance, abordando a la imagen y el sonido como herramientas de investigación y poducción para cuestionar sistemas de conocimiento que fundamentan las percepciones lineales y autoritarias de la historia y de lo político, visiblizando e incluso desatando contradicciones internas de dispositivos de poder.' -Andrea Ancira, curadora e investigadora.
Algunos proyectos individuales recientes son 'Witness Trees' en Smith Gallery, NC (2022); 'Canto llano cuenca valle', Centro Cultural Tlatelolco, CDMX (2021); 'Temporal', Museo Amparo, PUE (2020); 'Réplicas: Apuntes sobre historia material', ExTeresa Arte Actual, CDMX (2017); 'Concrete: Turning something invisible into matter', Meinblau, BE (2016), y ‘Concierto para campanas (1500-2015)’, un evento para 60 intérpretes tocando 43 campanas en 12 campanarios coloniales del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México
Exhibiciones y proyectos recientes incluyen instituciones como Museo de Arte Moderno, CDMX (2022); Centro Cultural Tlatelolco, CDMX (2021); Biobat Artspace, Brooklyn Army Terminal, NYC (2021); McColl Center for Arts+Innovation, Charlotte NC (2021); Museo Amparo, Puebla (2020); ESPAC, CDMX (2019); Palazzo Grassi, Venecia (2019); Skowhegan NY, New York (2019); Museo ExTeresa, CDMX (2018); Laboratorio Arte Alameda, CDMX (2018); Armory Center for the Arts, California (2017); Meinblau, Berlin (2016). Ha sido becaria del Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes FONCA (2018/2016/2011); 1er premio del Concurso Internacional de Video y Arte Electrónico Transitio (2013); beneficiaria del Programa de Investigación y Producción en Arte y Medios PAPIAM (2012); y alumni de residencias como McColl Center for Arts+Innovation (2021); Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2016); BB15 (2016); Casa Wabi (2015); ArtHub Abu Dhabi (2015); Cité Internationale des Arts (2014); y Museograbado (2011), entre otras. Estudió Artes Visuales en la Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda", del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes en México y la maestría en Cine Documental en la Escuela Nacional de Artes Cinematográficas, UNAM. Vive y trabaja en la Ciudad de México.
links
[ESP/ENG] Van Every/Smith Galleries & CCU Tlatelolco in conversation with Lorena Mal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxWSCrpJDZw
[ENG] Artist talk, Witness Trees, Davidson College Art Galleries: https://youtu.be/XPo79UKWjX0
[ENG] Art Talk, Past and present connections, Lorena Mal, Jonell Logan and Elisa Gutiérrez, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, facebook live: https://sw-ke.facebook.com/McCollCenter/videos/art-talk-past-and-present-connections-with-lorena-mal/1009888769543095/
bio
Lorena Mal (b.1986, Mexico city)
Lorena Mal is an artist based in Mexico city that grounds her work on research and interdisciplinary dialogue using sound and image as tools of investigation, production and collaboration.
In her work she combines archives, drawings, scores, performance, sculpture, installation and film, as forms that connect visual arts, music and material history to propose spaces to disrupt linear narratives of time, memory and fixed systems of knowledge, opening plural and intimate ways of relating with the past and the possibilites of a common future.
Some recent solo projects and exhibitions are 'Witness Trees' at Smith Gallery, NC (2022); Songs of plain river basey valley, Centro Cultural Tlatelolco, CDMX (2021); 'Temporal', Museo Amparo, PUE (2020); Replicas: Notes on material history', ExTeresa Arte Actual, CDMX (2017); Concrete: Turning something invisible into matter, Meinblau, BE (2016), and ‘Concert for bells (1500-2015)’, an event for 60 musicians playing 43 bells at 12 colonial bell towers at the Historic Center of Mexico city.
She has shown her work at venues as Museum of Modern Art of Mexico (2022); Centro Cultural Tlatelolco, CDMX (2021); BioBat Artspace, Brooklyn Army Terminal, NYC (2021); McColl Center for Arts+Innovation, Charlotte (2021); Museo Amparo, Puebla (2020); Palazzo Grassi, Venecia (2019); ESPAC, CDMX (2019); Skowhegan NY, New York (2019); Laboratorio Arte Alameda, CDMX (2018); Armory Center for the Arts, California (2017); IAGO, Oaxaca (2012), among others. She has been recipient of the National Fund for Culture and Arts FONCA (2018/2016/2011); 1st prize award of the International Competition of Video and Electronic Arts (2013); recipient of the Program for Production and Research of Arts and Media PAPIAM (2012); and alumni of residencies as McColl Center for Arts+Innovation, Charlotte (2021); Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine (2016); BB15, Linz (2016); Casa Wabi, Oaxaca (2015); ArtHub Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi (2015); Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2014); and Museograbado, Zacatecas (2011). She studied a BFA at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking "La Esmeralda" of the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico and an MFA in Documentary Film at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She lives and works in Mexico city.