CV
b. 1996 Quito, Ecuador
Education:
Bachelor of Visual Arts (specialization in sculpture), Universidad Nacional de las Artes, Argentina
Residencies and awards:
2024 Award for Creation-Production in Visual Arts IFCI, Ecuador
2024 Gasworks, London United Kingdom, July - September
2023 URRA Cerrito, Buenos Aires, Argentina August - September
2022 Beca Creación for project development, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Argentina
2022 Curriculum Cero (shortlist), Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires Argentina
Solo exhibitions:
2023 ‘Affectus’, Centro Cultural Benjamín Carrión Bellavista, Quito. Exhibition text by: María del Carmen Oleas
Group exhibitions:
2025 ‘La ligera sorpresa de la acción’, Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires, Argentina. Curated by Tania Puente
2025 ´Fem/o/type’, UCLM, Cuenca, España. Curated by Pamela Pazmiño
2024 ‘in short, we are cyborgs’, Omved Gardens, London. Curated by Tamara Manova & Zofia Kierkus
2024 ‘Tiempo de siembra’, Berlin Program for Artists // Raum, Berlin. Curated by Simon Speiser
2024 ‘Latinoargentina’, Proa21, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires. Curated by Rodrigo Alonso
2023 ‘Aquello que no debería estar aquí’, Galería Acéfala, Buenos Aires. Curated by Andrés Labaké & Barbara Echevarría
2023 ‘Una conjuración de mundos’, Museo Sívori, Buenos Aires. Curated by Johanna Caplliure
2023‘Imaginar futuros al cobijo de un paisaje’, 111º Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales, Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires. Curated by Guillermina Mongan
2022 ‘Currículum Cero’, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires
2022 ‘V edición del Premio Brasil’, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito
Publications:
2023 ‘Affectus’, INDEX Revista de Arte Contemporáneo, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
2023 ‘Making Kin’, Institute for Postnatural Studies, Cthulhu Books Madrid
2016 ‘Encuentros Parejos: Intervenciones artísticas participativas en el espacio público. Archivo Móvil La Floresta’, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Quito
Her work reflects on various technological structures, as well as their cultural and political dimensions, exploring the tensions between the human and the non-human. Through this, she questions how this dichotomy affects ways of cohabiting and the structuring of the world-system.
Using diverse media such as performance, sculpture, video, and installation, she evaluates Western ways of conceiving the natural world to challenge human-centered notions and norms, creating pieces that establish relationships between bodies from a posthumanist perspective, as an alternative form of (self)representation against dominant schemes. In her projects, she creates prosthetic hybrids that transcend the purely human form by expanding the body with sculptural objects, which articulate the multiplicity and heterogeneity of a process of subjectivation beyond the human. By appealing to a multispecies alliance through the process of “becoming animal,” she seeks to create forms or experiences that escape hegemonic humanism.
paulaproanomesias@gmail.com