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MissMi
MissMi is an international fashion project that was presented today, it´s a virtual catwalk, self portraits of women from all around the world wearing Mirit Weinstock items.
www.miritweinstock.com
Feet... what for if i have wings to fly...
Malá galerie České spořitelny
Svobody 2003
Kladno, Czech Republic
Opening: Wednesday , December 10, 2008 from 6:30 p.m
Length : December 10, 2008 - January 6, 2009
MissMi
I was invited to take part of MissMi and took a series of photos, some in a studio and others at a gym in Mexico City, it was an enricher and interesting experience.
www.miritweinstock.com
Feet... what for if i have wings to fly...
Feet as main character, as a representative part of the whole, as an expression and creation media. Feet as anchors to reality; as happiness and pride objects for some, and sadness, pleasure or pain for others. This series title comes from the famous Frida Kahlo´s words: ”Feet... what for if I have feet to fly...”, she wrote these words after lose one of her legs. ”Alegoría” is a little tribute to her.
Urbania
The city, artificial space created by men to live in, humankind residence. The cities are a majority’s landscape. The city as nature’s crises. Urban scars arise as our imposition to the planet to adapt to our way of living, and the way it defends or reacts to the constant aggression.
Italo Calvino describes the city in the foreword of his book Invisible Cities, like a group of many things: memoirs, wishes, language signs, a place to interchange words, wihes, memories. This makes me think that the nature’s crisis goes farther and gets us, we internalize the exterior’s chaos and we become part of the scars, our imposition turns against us.
Painted bodies
Hot air
Feet stories
Interfaces
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Gloria Zelaya was born in San Salvador, El Salvador on 1972. She moved to Mexico City in 1982 where she lives since then.
She studied Industrial Design at the Metropolitan Autonomous University-Campus Azcapotzalco (1990-1995). She did a master on Visual Arts at the National School of Arts, National Autonomous of Mexico University (2000-2002).
She was selected to take part in the “Painted Bodies” exhibition at the Scotiabank Forum, march-april 2007. Also was part of the Arts everywhere contest, organizad by Mexico City Government, with the Virtual Presences project. Her works involve many techniques: oil on canvas, acrylics, glass and clay sculpture, installation and photographie. She´s now working on some photo projects around city and self-concept manipulations.
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
• Virtual Presences. Installation. Cuore Café, Mexico D.F. October-November 2006.
• Palabrería. Installation. Luis Cabrera Park, Mexico D.F. September 2006.
• Virtual Presences. Installation. La Villa-Basilica Subway Station, Mexico D.F. March 2006.
• Virtual Presences. Installation. Juventino Rosas Cultural House, Mexico D.F. February 2006.
• Virtual Presences. Instalación. Roberto Medellín Ostos High School, Mexico D.F. June 2005.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
• Show your Mexico in Flickr, Yahoo Mexico, German Design Center. Mexico D.F. May 2008.
• Moving. Coahuila State House, Mexico D.F. January 2004.
• Time, color and fire. División del Norte Subway Station. Mexico D.F. December 2003 to January 2004.
• 15 days 730 nights of artistic absorption. National School of Arts, National Autonomous of Mexico University, Mexico D.F. July 2003.
• Three mexican sculptors generations. Pantitlán Subway Station, Mexico D.F. May 2003.
• Three mexican sculptors generations. Journalist´s Club. Mexico D.F. April-May 2003.
• I change my life... we transform the world. Mexico City Museum. March 2003.
• We are the women. Pino Suárez Subway Station, March 2003.
• Bronze Liberty. Morelos Theater. Toluca, Mexico. March 2003.
• Migrant Internacional Day Exhibition. City Museum, Cuernavaca, Morelos. December 2002.
• Help El Salvador. Exhibition. Popular Cultures Museum. Mexico D.F. June 2001.
• Help El Salvador. Auction. La Hacienda de los Morales Restaurant, Mexico D.F. May 2001.
• Women voices. CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico D.F. March 2000.
