Women artists

●Texts — 2025

«Pensar es un acto revolucionario»: las publicaciones de artista de Marie Orensanz

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

●Self-publishing — 2024

Ensayo 7: Marianne Wex’s ‘LET’S TAKE BACK OUR SPACE’, a Case Study

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

●Self-publishing — 2024

Ensayo 6: Lotty Rosenfeld, die Gruppe CADA und Mujeres por la vida: Kunst und Feminismus in Chile in den 1980er Jahren

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

●Exhibitions — 2023

Off-Register: Publishing Experiments by Women Artists in Latin America, 1960-1990

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

●Talks — 2023

Conversación entre Mela Dávila y Paola Peña | Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia

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

●Talks — 2023

Conversación entre Mela Dávila y Sol Henaro | Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia

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

●Self-publishing — 2022

Ensayo 2: We Want to Know

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

●Translations — 2022

Linda Nochlin — Mujeres, arte y poder

«”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

●Self-publishing — 2021

Ensayo 1: El ensayo (polifónico)

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