“Ensayos” series
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
Ensayo 3 was the postcard announcing the micro-exhibition of the same name at the Terranova bookstore in Barcelona, which ran from March 10 to April 8, 2023. 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 … Continued
This micro-exhibition included three elements: a poster featuring a photograph of the installation Valley Curtain by Christo and Jeanne-Claude (1972), a display stand holding a copy of the book of the same title published by the Museum of Fine Arts in Caracas in 1975, which was designed by renowned Álvaro Sotillo, and a facsimile reproduction … 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
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