About the artist
For the past five years, my painting practice has been limited to the canvas as a body inhabited by an event. I'm interested in expanding it by integrating the "otherness" of the individual, representing the ways in which they respond to a stimulus with bodies in motion, using resources such as the polyptych and diverse formats as tools in which the image can take different forms.
The body, far from being static and predictable, is a space of perpetual transformation. To be is to be in existence, a temporal construction in which self-awareness is generated through the other. In this context, my work not only represents bodies in motion, but is also a personal and artistic quest, driven by a deep creative need, to find new ways of understanding painting through all its possibilities.
It's a machine for questioning our reality, our perspective and relationship with the world, based on our connection with others. In this sense, my work is linked to the dialogical conception of Mikhail Bakhtin, who stated:
“A body in the act of becoming… never finished, never completed; it is continually created and built, in turn building and creating another body.”
Resume
Triana Parera Argüelles
(Mexico City, 1988)
Solo exhibitions
- Three seconds, The Nine Gallery (León, Guanajuato, Mexico, 2024).
- Three seconds, Arte Actual Gallery (San Pedro Garza García, Mexico, 2023).
- Three Seconds, Mexico City Museum (Mexico, 2023).
- All that glitters is gold, Gabriel García Márquez Cultural Center, Fondo de Cultura Económica (Bogotá, Colombia, 2023).
- All that glitters is gold, Luis Cardoza y Aragón Gallery, Fondo de Cultura Económica (Mexico City, Mexico, 2022).
- The Monsters of Dawn, Pulquería de los Insurgentes Gallery (Mexico City, Mexico, 2019).
Collective exhibitions
- TheBlackpiglet, Collaboration with Raúl de la Cerda for the “Design House” as part of Design Week Mexico. (Mexico City, Mexico, 2024).
- TheBlackpiglet, Peace Forum. (Mexico City, Mexico, 2024).
- Globule, pre-digital post-human morphology, Los Pinos Cultural Complex (Mexico City, Mexico, 2023).
- Graphic cornfield, Los Pinos Cultural Complex (Mexico City, Mexico, 2023).
- The Echoes of Vlady, Vlady Cultural Center, University of Mexico City (Mexico, 2023).
- Exhibition by residents Triana Parera and Rilo, Casa Cascabel (Mérida, Mexico, 2022).
- Recorded in the environment, Aleph Festival (Mexico City, Mexico, 2022).
- Zapata alive through contemporary graphics, National Museum of the Print (Mexico City, Mexico, 2019).
- Bez Jasneho Smeru (Prague, Czech Republic, 2019).
- FIG, Open Portfolio (Bilbao, Spain, 2019).
Student movement of 1968. 50 years later, “Carlos Olachea” Graphic Production and Research Workshop of the Faculty of Arts and Design, National Autonomous University of Mexico, National Museum of Printmaking (Mexico City, Mexico, 2018).
- First Cancun Graphic Colloquium (Mexico, 2018).
- Graduating is, Galleries of the National Center for the Arts (Mexico City, Mexico, 2016).
- Women in Graphic Art, Tlalpan History Museum (Mexico City, Mexico, 2015).
- UNITED KINGDOM-MEXICO CULTURAL IMPRESSION EXCHANGE (Manchester, United Kingdom 2015).
- Mexican Women (Newcastle, United Kingdom, 2015).
- Kapoks 2014, La Ceiba Gráfica (Coatepec, Mexico, 2015).
- Guests of honor, Vasconcelos Library (Mexico City, Mexico, 2015)
- Action Area, David Alfaro Siqueiros Gallery (Morelia, Mexico, 2014).
Residences
- Casa Cascabel (Mérida, Mexico, 2022).
- Berlin Art Institute (Germany, 2021).
- La Ceiba Gráfica (Xalapa, Mexico, 2021).
- La Ceiba Gráfica (Xalapa, Mexico, 2014).
Catalogs
- Exhibition catalogue Three seconds (Cóctel Producciones Culturales, Mexico City, Mexico, 2023).
- Exhibition catalogue All that glitters is gold (Fondo de Cultura Económica, Bogotá, Colombia, 2023).
- Exhibition catalogue Zapata Alive through Contemporary Graphics (Secretary of Culture, National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature, 2020).
- Participation in Street Art by Women. More than 50 contemporary artists of urban art, muralism, and graffiti compiled by Diego López (Hoaki Books, Barcelona, Spain, 2023).
Academic training
Bachelor of Fine and Visual Arts, National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving “La Esmeralda” (Mexico City, Mexico, 2012-2016).
- Architectural Studies, University of the Valley of Mexico, (Mexico City, Mexico, 2011).
- Studies in Psychology, University of the Valley of Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico, 2009)
- Film Studies, Sergei Eisestein Russian Mexican Institute of Cinematography (Mexico City, Mexico, 2007).
- Drawing workshops at the San Carlos Academy (Mexico City, Mexico, 2009).