Mercedes Azpilicueta is a visual and performance artist from Buenos Aires living and working in Amsterdam. Her artistic practice gathers various characters from the past and the present who address the vulnerable or collective body from a decolonial feminist perspective. In fluid, associative connections she counters rigid narratives of history in an attempt to dismantle them and make room for the affective and dissident voices to emerge. As such, her work manifests in performative and sculptural installations being inspired by speculative and fictional Latino literature, Neo-Baroque art history, contemporary popular culture and new materialism theory. Through collaborative and interdisciplinary practices, she combines “precarious”, craft-based techniques –historically associated with domestic obsolete knowledge– with industrialized productions.
Solo exhibitions include Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía-C3A (2024); Kunstverein Göttingen (2023); Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (2022); Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf (2022); Gasworks, London (2021), CAC Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge (2021); Museion, Bolzano/Bozen (2020); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2019); CentroCentro, Madrid (2019); MAMBA, Buenos Aires (2018); Móvil, Buenos Aires (2015); and Centro Cultural Jorge Luis Borges, Buenos Aires (2009).
www.mercedesazpilicueta.info
Welcome back to Sounds Like! In this final episode with Mercedes Azpilicueta, she discusses her most recent sound piece, Seized Atelier , a sonic search for her own voice amidst a new phase of unlearning.
→ Listen to the full sound piece Seized Atelier