Last January I met with Swedish artist Jonna Bergelin to work in an art book project inspired by the books On the Road by Jack Kerouac and Off the road by Carolyn Cassady. Most people have heard of only the first one. Actually, the length of the articles about the books on Wikipedia illustrates how unpopular is Off the road compared to On the road. However, both books tell two sides of the same story: the story of the Beat Generation, term that designated a group of adventurous writers inspired by jazz, poetry, drugs, sex, eastern religion, hedonism, and a general rejection of mainstream western values. Jack Kerouac is one of the writers, and he wrote his book as one of the bunch; Carolyn Cassady, on the contrary, was the wife and mother of 3 kids of another member, Neal Cassady; in her book she reveals the not-so-cool side of the story, and she breaks down the myth of the ‘wonderfully indomitable beatniks’.

Jonna designed the clothes, inspired by the the figure of Carolyn Cassady, and afterwards we met to create a series of photographs where I was the model. The final result is a book, titled Comme des Filles, that is currently being exhibited at Stockholm, Sweden Gallery Grafiska Sällskapet. As I promised on my Facebook, today I’m sharing with you more pictures from the series! I said I was going to show you the entire series but we’re now looking to possibly edit several copies of the book, and if I show you all the pics now I’d spoil the possibility of actually selling the book ;) hope you’ll forgive me! In the meantime, have a look at these:

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I’m a little late with this post, I’ve been working like crazzzy! But hey, there are lots of cool things coming up :)! Bellow you can see the artworks (some new, some not so new) currently being exhibited at L’Antre Temps in Rennes, France, until April 30 -besides ‘Girl with Cradle and toys‘ which appeared in my last post. I also included a few snaps of the installation and the opening, hope you enjoy! (Click on the thumbnails to enlarge):

After the opening, Pascale Heloïse Nivet, artistic director of La Marelle Editions, kindly wrote an article about my work and posted it at La Marelle’s blog. You can read it here (in French). Thanks Pascale! I have some more exciting press to show you but it’ll have to wait until I figure out how to upload it…

Girl with cradle and toys. Acrylic on canvas. 73 x 60 cm. 2010

I finished this painting last week. The model is Natalie Dybisz aka Miss Aniela, who I met in August 2009 to do a self-portrait collaboration. I started the painting right after I met with her, but stopped working on it for several months until the first week of February 2010. I’m very excited to share this with you, my first piece made (or finished) in 2010, that will be showcased soon in Singulière Plurielles, my second exhibition in Rennes, France!!

View of the flyer. I’ll be exhibiting with French artist Elsa Alayse at Gallery L’Antre Temps.

I’ll show the rest of my new work soon. In the mean time here’s a preview of my most recent series of drawings, which will also be exhibited at L’Antre Temps:

Pencil on paper. 28 x 24 cm. 2010

Stay tuned for more!

Last Thursday was the launch of my solo exhibition at Skandia, Bogotá, Colombia. I was extremely happy to see my family and friends there.

With my mother, niece, and sisters

With my friend Clara Isabel Mendoza, who was in charge of organizing everything.

Thanks to everyone who came. Check more photos of this and other events here.

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Gracias a todos los que vinieron, a la inauguración y al conversatorio. Les recuerdo que la exposición va hasta el 29 de Enero de 2010. ¡Los espero! Centro Cultural Skandia (Av. 19 No. 109A – 30). Entrada libre. Click aquí para más información.

I’m very glad to announce that this December, not only I’ll be visiting my country -after living abroad for more than a year and a half, but I’m having two exhibitions in my hometown!! I’ll be having a big solo exhibition (21 artworks, paintings and drawings) at the art gallery of Skandia, and the show will last for two months, launching the 10th December. Also, I’ll be showing 3 drawings and 3 photographs at Club el Nogal, during their traditional group exhibition for December: “Pequeño Formato”. Huge thanks to Clara Isabel Mendoza, who has been taking care of pretty much everything in Bogotá, and also to the people from Skandia and El Nogal who kindly invited me to exhibit at their art rooms.

I’m very excited about this! Besides, I really can’t wait to see my friends & family, and I’m already drooling with all the delicious things I’m going to eat -no offense my French pals, I’ve had a great time in your country, but French food is definitely overrated! ;)

On another note, I was invited as a guest speaker for the conference “The Status of Women Artists and The Representation of Women in Art in the 21st Century” at University Jean Moulin Lyon III. Last Monday I gave a 2 hour presentation about my work, at Auditorium Andre Malraux. Big thanks to Emeline Chaurand for inviting me to come! Preparing this presentation was a great exercise to straighten out my thoughts on art, feminism, my origins, the Internet, my work, among other things I talked about. I’ll share a report of the event -which was video taped-, later on…in the mean time, you can see some pictures here.

Oh, and, did you watch my filmed interview already? if you haven’t, click here!

Even though I hate watching myself talk in French, I thought it would be nice to share my interview for ArtplaTV, on the occasion of my solo exhibit in Rennes “Holy Beauty”. Speaking of which, you can now see the complete series of exhibited drawings: click here!

View the interview on ArtplaTV’s site (without subtitles): artplaTV.com/galerie

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A photo from this summer (click to enlarge)…models are Agathe and Aziliz. There are more from this shooting to come…

ps: Click here to see pics from the exhibition in Bourges, mentioned in my last post.