Lorena Ancona

The Museo Anahuacalli presents Ojos como pozos, boca como cueva, a solo exhibition by Lorena Ancona.

Lorena Ancona (Quintana Roo, MX – 1981). A visual artist working with sculpture and ceramics, Ancona weaves together the historiographies of dyes, pigments, natural materials, and Mesoamerican sites. Her work emerges from a research-based practice that questions the intangible displacements of traditions, heritage, and forgotten identities. Through the use of speculative techniques as an artistic methodology, her work seeks to unlock forms of knowledge through the analysis and identification of mineral, biocultural, and ethnic environments.

Her recent projects have focused particularly on archaeological contexts and the technological evidence surrounding a synthetic organo-mineral clay pigment known as Maya Blue. This research is understood as part of an expanded narrative in which the artistic gesture can shape possible representations and histories, reintroducing forgotten materialities that might otherwise be lost to history.