Paulina Vázquez

Servidor Local presents Intra Domum. Geology and genealogy of affections, exhibition by Paulina Vázquez curated by Marifé Medrano.

Intra Domum. Geology and genealogy of affections is a sample that arises from the research carried out within the framework of Paulina Vázquez's Master's studies in Visual Arts Research at FAD UNAM. The project states emotional bonds as essential components in the orography of identity, where the artist's relationships are presented as reliefs, faults, geographical accidents that come together from the artist's own language that combines cinematographic practices, textiles, sediments, rocks, minerals, metaphors and analogies to generate a sensitive orographic experience.

The exhibition is divided into two nuclei: mountain and cave. The tour invites us to travel through both spaces in synergy with the architecture of Servidor Local, from an interdisciplinary perspective, identity is explored through memory, the body, living and space. The different connections between the works present show a palpable affective dimension of a mountain system that transforms and erodes from an intimate perspective.

As part of the exhibition, dark cinema practices will be carried out, a proposal for artistic-cinematic production that blurs the boundaries between both disciplines and at the same time tenses the relationship we have with the image; We can dispense with sight ––as happens when we are inside a cave–– and thus give way to experiencing an embodied image when looking inside.

Paulina Vázquez, visual artist and researcher from Mexico City, stands out for her versatility and interdisciplinarity. Graduated from ENPEG "La Esmeralda" and pursuing a Master's Degree in Research in Visual Arts at UNAM, she has consolidated a renowned career with multiple individual and group exhibitions. Her work, centered on identity, challenges boundaries between artistic, scientific and social disciplines, using media such as installation, ritual actions, textiles, writing and film. Since 2020, she has served as an editorial advisor and critic at Fotogenia Podcast, contributing articles to recognized media such as La Rabia Cine, FilminLatino, Lumínicas, Girls At Films, FILME Magazine and Pulsar.

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