Iván Trueta Segovia

Saenger Galería presents the conversation between curators Virgina Roy, Michel Blancsubé and the artist Iván Trueta Segovia.

Virginia Roy (Barcelona) Graduated in Art History from the University of Barcelona, she completed a year of specialization in Art History at the University of Sussex (UK). She completed the postgraduate degrees Thinking about art today from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Social Management, Pompeu Fabra University and Barcelona School Management. She has a diploma from the Universidad Iberoamericana de México and the Museum Leadership Institute in Executive Training for Cultural and Museum Leaders. She worked in the Exhibitions Department of the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) (2005-2006). From 2007 to 2014 she was associate curator of the “la Caixa” Foundation, where she coordinated exhibitions such as: Sebastiao Salgado (2014), Art, two punts (2013), Contemporary Cartographies (2012), Masters of Chaos (2012), Omer Fast ( 2011), Pierre Huyghe (2011), Dalí, Lorca (2010), Chillida (2009), Rodin in the street (2008), etc. She has given lectures at centers and universities in Mexico and Spain, and has various publications in international magazines. Since the end of 2014 she has resided in Mexico. In 2015 she was selected to curate the exhibition Límites Nómadas at the Biennial of the Borders, Tamaulipas. From 2016 to the present she is associate curator of the MUAC where she has co-curated or curated exhibitions such as Orden y Progreso, by Laureana Toledo (2015), Yishai Jusidman. Prussian Blue (MUAC / Museo Espacio, Aguascalientes / Yerbabuena, San Francisco / MARCO, Monterrey. 2016-2017), Gregor Schneider Kindergarten (2017), Ai Weiwei. Reset memories (2019) or Fritzia Irizar. Mazatlanica (2019), Ana Torfs, Dark space where things cannot be put (2021), Tania Candiani. Like the stroke, its sound (2022), Francis Alys. Children's Games (2023), Gala Porras-Kim. Between lapses of stories (2023), Lawrence Abu Hamdan. Cross-border Crimes (2023). She has also co-curated projects in other museums in the country such as Memoria Tísica. Edgardo Aragón,MACO, Oaxaca (2017), Simon Gush. At the end of the job. Exteresa Museum, INBAH (2018), Marcelo Expósito. First dream and storm, Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico (2022). She highlights her curatorship of the exhibition Fritzia Irízar: CaCO3 at OCMA, Orange County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (2019). Since 2020, she has curated exhibitions from the virtual room 10 of the MUAC, with works by Yael Bartana, Edgardo Aragón, Lúa Coderch, Fabiola Torres-Alzaga, Grada Kilomba and Minia Bibiany. In 2021, her exhibition Desde la wound was selected for the Bienalsur, at the Kirchner Cultural Center in Buenos Aires. She is currently preparing the exhibition Chantal Peñalosa Fong. Other Ghost Stories, for the Amparo Museum, Puebla.

Iván Trueta (CDMX, 1977) Lives and works in Mexico City Iván Trueta is an artist who works mainly with drawing, painting processes and their expanded relationship with space. His work has reflected on the everydayization and normalization of violence, tragedy and misfortune in the contemporary context, using irony and absurdity as critical devices. In recent years he has addressed the symbolic load and dislocated temporalities of architectural space in the experience of living, as well as the manifestation of historical processes in everyday space. Through drawing and the pictorial process, Trueta investigates this dislocated temporality, this confinement of gestures, traces, vestiges and stelae, stuck in a present that has no other resource than to remove the unspeakable remains of the past. In the words of Virginia Roy: “Trueta's work is presented as a chronography in its literal definition, that is, the graphic description of the multiple aspects of a tempo (...) In his obsession with apprehending it, time is suspended and questioned in the artist's drawings.” Iván Trueta's work has been widely exhibited individually and collectively in spaces such as the Carrillo Gil Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of San Carlos, the House of the First Printing Press of America, the Center for Residences and Artistic Research (CRIA) in Ensenada, the Museum of Mexico City, the Anahuacalli Museum, the Museum of Oaxacan Painters, the Museum of the City of Querétaro, FERAL Gallery, La Refaccionaria Gallery, FrontGround Gallery - Manolo Rivero, Libertad Gallery , the Palazzo Cinni in Venice, among others. He has exhibited at international contemporary art fairs in Brazil, Argentina, the United States and Mexico. His work is part of different public and private collections, including the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), the Museum of Modern Art (MAM), the Banco de México Museum, the Casa Redonda Museo Chihuahuense de Arte Contemporáneo, The Luciano Benetton Collection, Venice; the Lumen Collection and the Gruber Jez Foundation, A.C., among others. He has been a scholarship recipient of the Young Creators program in the 2003-2004 and 2009-2010 generations, and a member of the FONCA National System of Art Creators (2014 and 2020 issues).

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