Mujer Artista: Puesto / Place

January 10 – 25, 2020
aceartinc. | Winnipeg, Canada
290 McDermot Ave, 2nd Floor

Opening + Performances: Friday, Jan 10 at 7 PM
Artist Talk + Performances: Saturday, Jan 18 at 2:30 PM
Regular Gallery Hours: Tues to Sat, noon to 5 PM

Admission is free, and all are welcome
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MUJER ARTISTA: A NON PLACE

Art gathers in spaces of commonalities. Accepted aesthetics reflect more inclusion within the dominant demographic class than they do universal truths or transcendence. Art that is deemed to be good or of its time is typically made by artists who – by gender, skin colour, culture, family religion, sexuality or language – reflect back onto society an image of how it sees and understands itself. Art, made by its accepted makers, is amplified like hyperreal selfies society takes, designed to send specific messages about inclusion, exclusion and hierarchies of belonging, ultimately reinforcing where power resides.

In this context, Mujer Artista is a revolutionary act in its straightforwardness: giving name, space and place to Latin women artists working on the prairies.

Throughout 2019, our group of ten artists whose origins trace back to Mexico, Peru, Chile and Argentina, worked with Vancouver actor/playwright/author Carmen Aguirre and Toronto curator Tamara Toledo, and met throughout the year to engage in discussions and development ideas rooted within our common cultural and historic meshing – as women, as Latin American, as artists, as diasporic. Puesto / Place is both a culmination of this work and a step on a continued journey forward.

Here, taking space not on the fringe of the mainstream, not as an outreach activity defined through the lens of the Institution, Mujer Artista is then a conscious act of non belonging – of naming the non place where we reside, staking it as territory and making it home.

– Cecilia Araneda, for Mujer Artista

PUESTO / PLACE

Through visual art, dance, media art and interdisciplinary work, Puesto / Place situates the Latin American connection between ten prairie artists as the starting point to consider notions of site, flight, migration and landing. The works traverse physical and memory landscapes, examining points of departure and arrival and temporary places of rest in between, measuring the separation to the idea of home through both distance and time.

Read the full catalogue here…

Artists:

Carolina Araneda
Cecilia Araneda
Beatriz Barahona
Francesca Carella Arfinengo
Gabriela Garcia Ortiz
Alexandra Garrido
Monica Mercedes Martinez
Mariana Muñoz Gomez
Lucy Pavez
Camila Schujman

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Mujer Artista acknowledges the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our work. We also acknowledge the support of MAWA: Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art and aceartinc.

Mujer Artista is grateful for the opportunity to work on Treaty 1, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Ininew, Oji-Cree, Dakota, Dene and Métis Nations. We respect the Treaties that were made on these territories; we acknowledge the harms and mistakes of the past; and we dedicate ourselves to move forward in partnership with Indigenous communities in a spirit of reconciliation and collaboration.

Image: landing / Cecilia Araneda