"Chorizos para Mercedes", performance. Helmhaus, Zurich

Live production of the installation “Mujer Emigrante Mercedes” performance, in tandem with Mercedes Álvarez.

Friday 10 June 2022, 16:00-18:00

Part of the exhibition Found in Translation curated by Alba Chantico Ledesma, Nora von Bergen and Sarah Basyouny. Helmhaus, Zurich.

The performance is also part of the large series of events Zurich Art Weekend, 10 - 12 June 2022.

Bang Bang exhibition. Museum Tinguely, Basel

BANG BANG – translocal hi:stories of performance art

8 June – 21 August 2022
An exhibition project by Revolving Histories/Performance Chronik Basel and Museum Tinguely

I participate in this vast and exciting exhibition and series of events brought by Window of Fame.

About BANG BANG (source: Museum Tinguely) :
All summer long, Museum Tinguely will be celebrating performance art in the show BANG BANG - translocal hi:stories of performance art. At the heart of this process-oriented exhibition is the Swiss performance scene, its players, and its networks, although the programme will be international in character.

Private viewing at Ruettimann Contemporary, Zurich

I am showing a selection of works on the weekend of March 3 & 4, at their pop-up space at Weststrasse 145 in Wiedikon.

The presentation will include drawings from my "Periscope" series, the recent ceramic work "Ceramic World N.2", and the altar piece "Ruega por Nosotros" that I created in Spain in 2019. This work has never been exhibited before.

Address
Pop Up: Westrasse 145, 8003 Zurich

Private viewing times
- Friday March 3, from 15 - 20 H
- Saturday March 4, from 12 - 19 H


/ Wine & prosecco will be served on both days as long as available.
/ The artist will be present.

The gallery is concurrently featuring works by Aoife Dunne, Claudia Kübler, Simon Lederberger, Hannah Parr, and Valentina Pini across the two floors of their 150m2 space.

* Additional viewing times by appointment.
www.ruettimanncontemporary.com

“Ceramic World N.2”, 2021

"White, Black, and Things" part of the series Open Futures, Shedhalle

White, Black and Rituals is a public metaphorical meal in which I will invite to savor togetherness through the personal stories of Spanish women.
The event is part of the series Open Futures: a new cultural initiative in Zurich and also a cooperation between the Shedhalle, the Gessnerallee, the Tanzhaus with Newrope, the Architecture and Urban Transformation Laboratory of the ETH.

Open Futures is dedicated to sustainability and at the same time understands itself as sustainable, both towards the artists and the overarching ecosystem.

White, Black and Rituals is part of the series of talks, performances, and exhibitions organized by Club La Fafa.

White, Black and Rituals
Sunday December 5
14-15.30 H
Shedhalle, Seestrasse 395, 8038 Zürich

Open Futures’ full program here.

In progress: Ceramic Worlds

Clay is another canvas - or, better said, body - on which memories of what was or what could be or could have been appear. They build and display a narrative of the moment. They record it like a book. Perhaps a map. Used to work on paper - a very fast medium for me - clay is an extremely slow material, impossible to control, surprising and very moody and stubborn

Image: detail of Ceramic World N.2 (Rainbow Portal)

Ritual of release for "What is Our Dream?", Helmhaus Zurich

Once the exhibition closed, and the series of performative exchanges “What is Our Dream?” therefore finished, something had to be done to release the 76 dreams that had been shared, invented and produced during those 17 performance sessions.
Upon conversations with some of the “dreamers”, as well as with curator and museum director Simon Maurer, we made a ritual of release in three acts letting them go into the air, water and fire.

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Awarded the grant Covid-19 from the City of Zurich

I have received a production grant for the realization of the 6-month project “Weiss und Schwarz, Dinge und Rituale” (White and Black, Things and Rituals) in which I will work with performance and ceramics. The work gravitates around the concepts of togetherness and belonging. In it I will invite a group of migrant Spanish women in Switzerland to share and reinterpret their stories together.

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Helmhaus Zurich: performative exchanges "What is Our Dream?"

** Reopened**
March 4th - April 5th 2021

every
• Thursday 16.00 - 18.30 H
• Saturday 15.00 - 17.30 H

“What is Our Dream?” is a performative exchange in which I invite visitors to sit with me and create a vision for the future. The drawings compose a “matrix” with the sum of individual dreams. Borrowing the concept of social dreaming by W. Gordon Lawrence, the “matrix of dreams” intends to keep the open-endedness to emphasize the “multiversity” (Lawrence) of meaning.

“What is Our Dream?” and installations “Scaffold of Dreams” are part of group exhibition “Am nächsten Tag ging die Sonne auf”

Curated by Nadja Baldini, Vreni Spieser, Simon Maurer & Daniel Morgenthaler.

Photo: Zoe Tempest

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