Women artists
In June 2026, the Lawrence bookstore in Madrid (a project by Alejandro Cesarco) invited me to present a selection of publications at their venue. I decided, once again, to use Marianne Wex’s work as a starting point for my selection. This time, however, I did not limit myself to her famous book on bodily postures … Continued
As in other Latin American countries, post-avant-garde artistic practices in Chile suffered the impact of a ferocious dictatorship. Forced to resist censorship and prosecution, they were often connected to positions of political dissent, showing a desire to reclaim public spaces and involve spectators in the production of meaning. Despite these difficulties, artist publishing under Pinochet … Continued
Irene Kopelman – Field to Form, published by the María José Jove Foundation Art Centre in A Coruña and Roma Publications in Amsterdam, offers the first comprehensive overview of Kopelman’s extensive career in the form of a monograph on her work. The book brings together a series of essays on Kopelman’s work, analysed from different … Continued
This text, published here in the University of Salamanca’s Umática online journal, analyzes Marie Orensanz’s artist publications. After beginning her career as a painter in the 1960s, Argentine artist Marie Orensanz (La Plata, Argentina, 1936) created a significant number of artist publications in the 1970s and 1980s, alongside her sculptural and pictorial practice. These publications, … Continued
The German artist Marianne Wex earned a degree in Fine Arts and subsequently taught typography for several years at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (HfbK). Her best-known work, the research project and book Let’s Get Back Our Space – ‘Female’ and ‘Male’ Body Language as a Result of Patriarchal Structures (Frauenliteraturverlag Hemine Fees, 1979), … Continued
Throughout her career in 1980s Chile, the artist Lotty Rosenfeld moved from political action onto feminist activism, employing strategies for visibility and outreach that remained consistent throughout her career. Ensayo 6 was the flyer announcing a talk on this topic at the Central Library for Women’s, Gender, and Queer Studies at the Center for Gender … Continued
“A library is not the same as an archive: it lacks a system of hierarchies that determines the place that each book occupies within it in relation to the others. This does not mean, however, that any haphazard and disorderly accumulation of titles constitutes a library. Certainly, almost all libraries started in the same way: … Continued
Off-Register: Publishing Experiments by Women Artists in Latin America, 1960-1990 was on view at Center for Book Arts, New York, from October 5 to December 16, 2023. This exhibition set out to explore the creative practices of a series of Latin American women artists who, between 1960 and 1990, channeled part of their artistic impetus … Continued
What have been the main publishing initiatives by women artists in Latin America? Why might one say that they have been “off-register”? So as to answer these questions, the National Library of Colombia and Center for Book Arts in New York organized a meeting where I had the opportunity to speak with Colombian historian Paola … Continued
What have been the main publishing initiatives by women artists in Latin America? Why might one say that they have been “off-register”? So as to answer these questions, the National Library of Colombia and Center for Book Arts in New York organized a meeting where I had the opportunity to speak with Mexican historian and … Continued
As part of the public program accompanying the exhibition Off-Register: Publishing Experiments by Women Artists in Latin America, 1960–1990, which was on view at the Center for Book Arts at the time, I had the honor of presenting the research that led up to the exhibition at the New York Public Library during a conversation … Continued
“…The present publication is made up of two voices: text and image. These voices move in parallel, so to speak. The first one comprises an essay that reviews the political, social, and aesthetic coordinates necessary to contextualize the artworks gathered in Off-Register. A few of these works have inspired digressions into greater detail, denoted on … Continued
The second Essay is a poster designed to be folded and mailed. The intended recipients were, initially, the people who had participated in a simple survey aimed at gathering references to publications by female artists between 1960 and 1990. The front of the poster contains about a hundred titles that were identified through this survey, … Continued
«”He escrito estos ensayos a lo largo de casi veinte años, veinte años en los que he presenciado el nacimiento y el desarrollo de una historia del arte feminista. Cuando en 1970 empecé a trabajar en ¿Por qué no ha habido grandes mujeres artistas?, la historia del arte feminista no existía: como cualquier otra forma … Continued
The Ensayos series was launched in late 2021, coinciding with the start of a wide-ranging research project aimed at redefining—from a feminist and, to the extent possible, decolonial perspective—the canon that historiography has established for the artist’s book genre. The aim of this series is to present partial research findings in a variety of printed … Continued
“En la primera década de los 2000 Dora García inició una serie de obras, realizadas a partir de volúmenes de obras literarias, que ha proseguido ampliando hasta la actualidad. En esta serie, además de materializar su constante interés por estudiar los fenómenos vinculados al lenguaje y la comunicación, la artista pone en juego su habilidad para explorar…”