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Maru Rojas Cuahonte
Maru Rojas is an artist, writer and facilitator from Mexico currently based in London. She has recently finished an MFA Art Writing course at Goldsmiths, after being awarded a Scholarship for Postgraduate Studies Abroad from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA, Mexico), and another one from the Fundación Colección Jumex. She has exhibited her work in the UK, the US and Mexico and her writing has been published in A-N magazine and other independent publications in the UK.
Reviews
Too Much Night, Again [27 March 2013]
Night and darkness have wonderful consequences. For it was during long, sleepless nights that Californian artist Pae White came up with the idea for her latest exhibition at the South London Gallery. White's inspirational bout of insomnia Read on…
South London Gallery, London
13 March - 12 May 2013
Multiplied Art Fair [29 October 2012]
As is customary for many art fairs these days, Multiplied Art Fair opened on the same weekend as Frieze, aiming to capitalise on the influx of art collectors and enthusiasts into the city. Unlike the bigger fairs, which can be problematic in the Read on…
Christie's, London
12 - 15 October 2012
Quarantania [8 June 2012]
The artist Louise Bourgeois once described Quarantania, a group of elongated bronze sculptures, as “growing from the duel between the isolated individual and the shared awareness of the group”. Alas, Quarantania also happens to be the Read on…
John Hansard Gallery, SOUTHAMPTON
24 April 2012 to 9 June 2012
A World of Glass [3 April 2012]
For this exhibition, the Swedish artist screened four films: My body is a house of glass, Monster, Didn’t you know I’m made of butter? and I’m a wild animal, each one a claymation lasting approximately 5 Read on…
Camden Arts Centre, London
7 October 2011 - 8 January 2012
I Just Want To Be Taken Seriously As An Artist... [2 April 2012]
It’s not often you get to see, and write about, an exhibition before it’s even been hung. It’s also not often that a new artist-run space opens its doors, far away from East London or the new go-to place for the Read on…
Space Station 65, London
30 March - 25 May 2012
Infinitas Gracias [24 February 2012]
Having grown up in a traditional Mexican family, I may not the best person to review this exhibition. I am certainly not impartial to religious expressions and furthermore, Infinitas Gracias is not the kind of exhibition I would Read on…
Wellcome Collection, London
6 October 2011 - 26 February 2012
South London Black Music Archive [16 February 2012]
In his seminal work The Gift, Marcel Mauss argues that gifts are never free. With every gifted object, a transaction is born where the giver does not merely give an object but also a part of him. Giving and receiving create a reciprocal exchange Read on…
Peckham Space, London
17 January - 24 February 2012
The Invisible Show [1 February 2012]
For this exhibition Griffiths has sourced five identical metal structures, prefabricated and second-hand, as is common in his practice. Taller than the average person, they stand awkwardly in the gallery like dormant giants. They are clothed Read on…
Vilma Gold, London
12 January - 19 February 2012
All I Can See is the Management [12 January 2012]
“Our schools are factories in which the raw materials are to be snapped & fashioned into products to meet the demands of life” Ellwood Cubberly, Public School Administrator, 1916 (taken from Allan Sekula’s School is a Read on…
Gasworks, London
7 October - 11 December 2011
Am I Making Up What Really Happened? [5 December 2011]
Where did we ever get the strange idea that nature — as opposed to culture — is ahistorical and timeless? We are far too impressed by our own cleverness and self-consciousness. . . . We need to stop telling Read on…
Beaconsfield, London
12 November 2001 - 12 February 2012
Film [28 October 2011]
(If you would like to read the review of the exhibition only, please skip the first 3 paragraphs, which help to situate the author within this review) I am always cautious when writing a review of what I think of as the big Read on…
Tate Modern, Turbine Hall, London
11 October 2011 - 11 March 2012
Catherine Yass [16 July 2011]
This exhibition presents a selection of work from the last decade and places special emphasis on a new commissioned work called Lighthouse (2011), which occupies a gallery of its own on the first floor. To call Yass’ work Read on…
De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill on sea
25 June - 4 September 2011
Ad-Hoc: For this Purpose [4 June 2011]
A few students from Goldsmiths are guilty of enveloping their work in such a thick cloak of theory that when you lift the theoretical cover you are left with work that is at best boring and at its worst nonsensical and impenetrable. Read on…
Take Courage, Amersham Arms, London
30 May - 1 June 2011
Ida Appleboorg [30 March 2011]
When asked to write a review of an exhibition, the writer is asked to look into his/her pool of knowledge on a particular subject and, taking an impartial view (if this is ever possible), write an informative text. He/she is asked to examine the Read on…
Hauser & Wirth, London
17 March - 30 April 2011
Reykjavik Slides (31,035) Every View of a City [18 March 2011]
Talk about an Archival Impulse. Although Hal Foster didn’t write about this contemporary obsession with archives until 2004, Dieter Roth has been creating archives in all shapes and forms since the late 60s. Every View of a City is perhaps his Read on…
Hauser & Wirth, London
17 March - 30 April 2011
Morgan Fisher: Films and Paintings and In between [10 March 2011]
Google “Morgan Fisher” and you’ll find a jewellery designer and an English keyboard player before you stumble across the underrated video artist that features in Raven Row’s latest show. Although less well known in the UK, Read on…
Raven Row, London
24 February - 24 April 2011
Nothing is Forever [4 March 2011]
According to their website, The South London Fine Art Gallery opened on 4 May 1891 and was founded as a 'gallery for the people of south London open to the public free, and on Sundays'. After a year of renovations, it reopened at the end of June. Read on…
South London Gallery, London
26 June - 10 September 2010
The Independent [2 December 2010]
Former political cartoonist come artist, Damian Ortega is currently presenting an exhibition at Barbican’s The Curve. For 30 days Ortega set himself the challenge of creating a new piece in response to a newspaper story, photograph or image Read on…
The Curve, Barbican, London
15 October 2010 - 16 January 2011
The Family and the Land [2 December 2010]
For those of us who are unfamiliar with Mann's work, or haven't had the chance to see it other than in books, this exhibition will come as a pleasant surprise. The Family and the Land: Sally Mann at The Photographer's Gallery is an edited version of Read on…
The Photographers Gallery, London
18 June - 19 September 2010
Gasworks Yaoi [2 December 2010]
Francesc Ruiz was one of Gasworks artists in residence for a period of 3 months. His new exhibition, Gasworks Yaoi is the culmination of this residency, inspired by the gay subculture in the area of Vauxhall, where the gallery is set. Do Read on…
Gasworks, London
26 November 2010 - 23 January 2011
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