María Conejo

Ambar Quijano invites you to a guided tour of A Carnival of Bodies with one of its two artists, María Conejo.

A Carnival of Bodies brings together María Conejo and Antoine Granier, crafting a corporeal convergence through the shared exploration of the body as a site of enunciation –a vessel through which histories, technologies, and desires speak. Employing the body to create meaning and as a locus for resistance, they both explore identity and self-determination through narrative, theatricality, devotion, and celebration. Conejo’s headless feminine figures reclaim corporeal space from patriarchal erasure, embodying memory, vulnerability, and resistance. While Granier’s hybrid sculptures animate speculative bodies that expose the frictions between flesh and circuit, nature and artifice. Together, their works foreground the body not as passive form, but as a dynamic interface: tactile, symbolic, and defiantly expressive in the face of systemic control. Rather than fixed or decorative, their figures function as metaphoric entities that explore the multiple fluid dimensions of having a body and inhabiting it in the world today.

— Ambar Quijano