Momo Fernández

Yo Studio presents the exhibition of Momo Fernández: “Me van a dejar pelona”, from March 5 to 22.

“I am interested in reflecting on care, now I try to include my children in my pieces, because I can't split my day to be an artist and a mother. I think we all have a lot of scores to settle with motherhood, both mothers and children, it's something you are never prepared for, they are the best and the worst days I have lived in my life.

The mop piece I like to think of as my physical ability to support my children. And the video portraits are a series of actions I work on with my children, a mirror of the care I take of them. I ask them to take care of me and I implore them, don't leave me bald,” says the artist.

Decadence is the certainty of the finite. In Mónica Fernández's work, the time of being a mother and being an artist intersect, showing us the detritus of these processes. Her work unveils cycles of loss such as hair loss, before the inevitable passage of time, leaving a trace that is attributed to motherhood. Assuming it without disguises. There is no eternity in the body, in power, or in affections. There is only the awareness that everything ends, and in that recognition, we find the possibility of living with more freedom. As time goes by, roles are transformed. Today you care and tomorrow you will be cared for.

— Rocío Cardenas