Past Residents
Francisco Montoya Cázarez
Francisco Montoya Cázarez explores the specific identities of his residential contexts in Mexico and Germany in his work, and how they both relate and confront each other. In his most recent drawings, sculptures, performances and films, he attempts to address the social situation in his home country of Mexico. At first glance, Montoya’s works come across as folkloristic clichés that seem to reflect the typical European perception of Mexico, however upon closer inspection one can read an intense examination of the country’s realities.
Francisco Montoya Cázarez (born 1985, Cuernavaca, Mexico) currently lives and works in Berlin and Braunschweig, Germany. He studied at “La Esmeralda” in Mexico City, graduated from the HBK Braunschweig, Germany, in 2010 and became “Meisterschüler” of Prof. Candice Breitz there in 2011. Recently his work has been exhibited in the Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany, and he had a solo show, 100 Jahre Karneval, in the Remise of the Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany, which was accompanied by a catalogue.
Francisco Montoya Cázarez, Monument to the Revolution, 2011 , Wood, straw, wire, eggs and chickens , 114 × 861/2 × 861/2 in. (289.56 × 219.71 × 219.71 cm). Courtesy of the artist .
Francisco Montoya Cázarez, Pum Pum - Bang Bang, 2011, Recollected fireworks from the street, 138 × 961/2 in. (350.52 × 245.11 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Francisco Montoya Cázarez, The Jariperiqueo, 2011, Watercolor on paper, 381/2 × 26 in. (97.79 × 66.04 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Francisco Montoya Cázarez, Banquet, 2011 , Newspaper, colored paper, adhesive tape, tamarindos candies, cardboard and metal , 71 × 138 × 102 in. (180.34 × 350.52 × 259.08 cm). Courtesy of the artist .
Francisco Montoya Cázarez, Das Bundesständchen, 2010, Video, 5:56 min. Courtesy of the artist .
Residents from Germany
Past Resident2012: Anonymous
Aliki Panagiotopoulou
Aliki Panagiotopoulou explores materials, techniques and modes of narration to create works in an idiosyncratic idiom. Balancing between chronicle, confession, interpretation and invention, her meticulously constructed works act as exaggerated signs of a sublimated origin, resonating with the primitive desire to know an all-encompassing truth and the inevitable acknowledgement that most truth is invented. Through Panagiotopoulou’s drawings, paintings and sculptures, the viewer is confronted with their own idea of beauty, sexuality and sense of self by having to revisit familiar yet unexplored territories.
Aliki Panagiotopoulou (born 1980, Athens) studied Painting at the Athens School of Fine Art and received an MFA in Fine Art Media from the Slade School of Art, London in 2005. She is currently based in Athens, Greece. Recent exhibitions and projects include ‘Personal-Political’ at the 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece; ‘Petrosphere’ at ReMap3, Athens, Greece and Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, UK; ARTSCHOOL/UK, Cell Project Space and Whitechapel Gallery, London; The Infinite Chambers of the Beehive that is the World, A.Antonopoulou.Art Gallery, Athens; and B.Y.O.B. at Kunsthalle Athena, Athens.
Aliki Panagiotopoulou, If on a Summer’s Day, 2011, Oil on linen , 21 × 24 in. (53.34 × 60.96 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Aliki Panagiotopoulou, A Traveller, 2011, Oil, ink and pencil on prepared paper on cardboard, 21 × 245/8 in. (53.34 × 62.55 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Aliki Panagiotopoulou, A Kiss and Some Pain, 2011, Sanguine, ink and pencil on prepared paper, 85/16 × 113/8 in. (21.11 × 28.89 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Aliki Panagiotopoulou, Melancholia, 2007 , Appropriated monk’s bed, door, oil lamp, egg-cup, tin funnel and sickle , 79 × 71 × 353/8 in. (200.66 × 180.34 × 89.85 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Greece
Past Resident2012: Beca Arte, CCU - Corporación Cultural La Araucana
Alejandra Prieto
In her work, Alejandra Prieto experiments with different materials and media — digital photography, sculpture, and video — while focusing mostly on representations of highly fashionable commodity objects, such as designer furniture, shoes, and clothing accessories. Her work interrogates our everyday approach to these kinds of objects by denaturalizing their production, distribution, and consumption and disrupting our everyday relationships with them through the different materials she employs, such as coal and perishable foods. Her work with coal, in particular, makes use of the different meanings of this material in contemporary society. Coal represents hard labor, production, and all the historical processes related to these phenomena. In shaping coal in the form of Nike sneakers or a Hèrmes scarf, for example, the artist makes visible the processes hidden by consumption circuits and the strategies of display related toconsumption spaces.
Alejandra Prieto (born 1980, Santiago, Chile) studied her BFA at PUC University of Chile and MFA at the University of Chile. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in group exhibitions, including MAC USP – Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de Sâo Paulo; Roebling Hall Gallery, NY; OTR Gallery, Madrid; 7th Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brasil; and VI International Biennial SIART, La Paz, Bolivia. She will participate in the 11th Havana Biennale, Cuba, and will have her first solo exhibition in New York at Y Gallery.
Alejandra Prieto, Black Tears, 2011 , Coal, iron, bulbs, 62 × 40 × 40 in. (157.48 × 101.6 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Alejandra Prieto, Coal Mirror, 2011 , Coal and iron , 118 × 72 × 6 in. (299.72 × 182.88 × 15.24 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Alejandra Prieto, Les Jardinieres du Roy, 2009 , Coal , 16 × 16 × 1/4 in. (40.64 × 40.64 × 0.63 cm). Courtesy of the artist .
Alejandra Prieto, Air Classic, 2009, Coal, copper and iron, 14 × 14 × 6 in. (35.56 × 35.56 × 15.24 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Alejandra Prieto, To handle, 2010, Coal, 14 × 6 × 1/4 in. (35.56 × 15.24 × 0.63 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
