Fé(m)

Galería 54 presents the group show Fé(m) that brings together the works by female artists Cynthia Yee, Daphane Park, Montse Balmori, María Ponce, Sonya Fichte, Elena Kosharny, Anne Lise Michoud, Sofía Tormenta.

The echo is a sound form that is inscribed in time and occurs under certain spatial conditions that reflect an original sound. The future of the echo is a wall, a sentence. For centuries, female representation has had to go through an echo, a mobile sound that goes back, with no possibility of anything other than wear and tear. This set of works is an affront to the echo to which they have been condemned. The unmistakable artistic personality of each of these artists is the best resistance that can be opposed to any attempt to standardize their voices and bodies.

Female identity continues to be a great question to discover, identity as a void, a question, an anguish that collects the traces or signs of a shattered, fragmentary, contradictory or mutilated vision, far removed from the harmony that is usually associated with what is feminine.

Traces that are imprinted on the body and remain in the soul live here. In these pieces the contours fade, as a kind of conquest of the liquid over the solid. The mirror in front of which these artists look at themselves, a smooth and immobile surface, suddenly becomes a shining and shifting sea, the mirror that turns into moving water, dissipates the contours and mixes everything. These works surround the unspeakable and the absences to draw the contours of the islands that form their interior territories. Detailed contours to imagine semi-uncovered and semi-hidden worlds. Pieces against shipwreck in a hostile environment to public undressing, especially by women. These pieces shake to drop golden statues, drive buildings crazy, slice streets. In these works, a subtle and complex game develops between all the forms of otherness that define each artist. It is a polyphony that presents a feminine aesthetic liberation from the ruthless world that constricts and runs through them.

The female body, often lacerated, requires liberation and the scrutiny of the visual, textile and written arts is what makes up the nucleus of this exhibition. Resistance in feminine, in the face of a world that is ours even if we are told otherwise, a world in which all possible ways of being a woman on this planet fit. All these cultural expressions are symbiotic between technologies and arts and are inscribed in the urgency of influencing culture from creation, a cultural transformation that is taking place outside the academies and art markets. It is the creative act of the artists as an impulse of relationship with the world.

Circumstances as women that are adverse to us, and yet these artists reveal a widened frontier, a construction of imaginaries, a desire to found free cities, to regain meaning, to not allow themselves to be domesticated, to leave marks on others. These works remain untamed, as pioneers of the edge, housed in a kind of oblique area where everything new is built.

— Luli Serrano