About the artist
His work touches on the themes of absence, space, nostalgia, memory and family relationships in relation to identity. In his pictorial, drawing and collage production, he uses personal photographic archives, found images and texts.
She also talks about feminism from personal experiences, with a particular aesthetic, appropriating the idea of the wound from the point of view of Leslie Jamison in Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain (2014). Compile personal images to create works of an intimate nature.
Gladys Méndez Alayola was born in Merida, Yucatán, Mexico in 1995.
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EDUCATION
2018 - Preventive Conservation Course, taught by Kandy Ruiz.
2016 - Exchange student at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving La Esmeralda.
2016 - Installation workshop, taught by Perla Krauze, ENPEG La Esmeralda.
2016 - Painting workshop, taught by Ulises Ponce de León, ENPEG La Esmeralda.
2015 - Painting workshop, taught by Paloma Menéndez, ESAY.
2015 - Theories of the Anthropocene, taught by Javier Fresneda, ESAY.
2014 - 2018 - Bachelor of Visual Arts, Higher School of Arts of Yucatán
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:
2014 - (Re)MIX. Cinecafé El Cairo, Merida, Yucatan.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2017-2018 - Creation in Motion. Traveling exhibition, Mexico.
2017 - Magda: exhibition and sale. Antithesis Gallery, Merida, Yucatan.
2017 - Proposals. Visual Arts Center, Mérida, Yucatán.
2016 - To Endure. Tara Collective Culture, Mérida, Yucatán.
2016 - I'll try anything once. Southeast Central, Campeche, Campeche.
2016 - Peninsula: Creators in Yucatán. La Cúpula Cultural Center, Mérida, Yucatán.
2016 - 36th National Meeting of Young Art. Museum of Contemporary Art, Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes. 2016 - Memoriae: Reflections on the Botanical Garden. As part of the Bezoart Collective, at the Roger Orellana Botanical Garden, Scientific Research Center of Yucatán (CICY).
DISTINCTIONS
2016 - Recipient of a scholarship from the Young Creators program of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA).
2016 - Honorable mention at the XXXVI National Meeting of Young Art, Aguascalientes.
PROFESSIONAL WORK
2018 - Preventive conservation of the Manolo Rivero archive. Frontground, Mérida, Yucatán