Fabiola Torres-Alzaga (Mexico City) My practice investigates focus and nearsightedness present in the act of gazing, and its repercussions in our socio-spatial relationships. I have a keen interest in cinema and its articulations of space and time, as well as stage magic and its defiance of logic. Both disciplines comprise the basis of my research. Through them, I seek to expand the scope of the visible, creating illusionary worlds that intrude into real space, counter-spaces that claim inclusive folds within the rigid limits of patriarchy to generate Other possible relations.
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Solo Exhibitions
2021 "Night, where spectra appear", Guadalajara90210, Mexico
2021 "Acts of illusion", sala 10, MUAC, Mexico.
2018 "Telón de Fondo" (Backdrop), XIII Bienal Femsa "Nunca Fuimos Contemporáneos", Zacatecas, Mexico.
2017 "Raising dust creates curtains" (El polvo que se levanta crea telones), Nora Sotres Galería, México.
2014 “Entre Actos” (Between the Acts), Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico.
2013 “House of Games”, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
2005 “Sólo creo lo que veo” (I just believe what I see), Insurgentes Subway, Mexico.
2004 “Porta-infinitos” (Infinity Cases), Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico.
2004 “La Habitación” (The Room) Museo Alhóndiga de Granaditas at Festival Internacional Cervantino, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Selective Group Exhibitions
2022 "Notte Bianca", curated by Saverio Verini, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy.
2022 "El umbral de lo visible", curated by Rivera, Llano Galería, Mexico.
2022 "Inmortalizando al cangrejo", curated by Guadalajara90210, Mexico.
2021 "Desmontajes Audiovisuales", curated by Esteban King, AYER AYER, Gdl, Mexico.
2021 "Prácticas imaginarias de Astronomía, Biología y Bótanica", curated by Guadalajara90210, Mexico.
2020 "Los objetos en el espejo están más cerca de lo que parece" (Objects in mirar are closer than they appear), Museo Autoservicio, Mexico. Curated by Daniel Garza Usabiaga y Mario García Torres.
2020 "Temps fugaç / Temps aprecari", Rizomarte y Purisima arte contemporáneo, Barcelona, Spain.
2020 "Videolimbo", Museo de arte Carrillo Gil, México. Curated by Isabel Sondereguer.
2019 "Pensar en forma de libro", Residencia en PAOS, Guadalajara, Mexico.
2019 "El Jardín de Galileo", Guadalajara 90210, Mexico City.
2019 "La Déesse Verte", Lille 3000, Lille France. Curated by Dorothée Dupuis.
2019 "El Pabellón de las Escaleras", Guadalajara 90210, México City.
2018 "Antropología Moderna", Guadalajara 90210, Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico.
2018 Premio Norberto Griffa, Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2018 "Almost solid light", Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA.
2018 “La monarquía tuvo sus ociosos, la República sus holgazanes” (The monarchy had its idlers, the Republic its loafers) Alterna Gallery, Mexico. Curated by Octavio Avendaño.
2018 "El departamento imaginario del Dr. Atl", Guadalajara 90210, Mexico City.
2018 "Geometría Primitiva", Guadalajara 90210 y Galería Mercado Negro, Puebla, MX.
2018 "El Exploratorio: Zona 1 Beyond the Limits and the Processes of Creation", Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA. USA
2018 "Mono Selects: 2018", Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA.
2018 "Predicciones", Nixon, México City, MX.
2018 "Contacto Sangriento 8", Guadalajara 90210, Guadalajara, MX.
2018 "La Imagen Perdida" (The lost image), Museo de Arte Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico. Curated by Paulina Ascencio.
2017 "Talon Rouge", Proxyco Gallery, New York, USA. Curated by Daniel Garza Usabiaga.
2017 "Impressions of time", ESPAC (Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo), México City. Curated by Laura Orozco.
2017 "Gastland Mexico IX", International Experimental Film & Video Festival, Zurich.
2016 "Cine en bucle", Laboratorio Experimental de Cine, Museo Tamayo, Mexico.
2016 "+52 Paisajes recientes", Fundación Calosa, Irapuato, Mexico. Curated by Paulina Ascencio.
2016 "La Gravedad de los Asuntos", Museo de Arte de Zapopan, México.
2016 "Until nothing happens", Maison des Arts de malakoff, France. Curated by Pierre Vialle.
2015 “Año internacional de la luz”, Feria Internacional de Libro, Guadalajara, Mexico. Curated by Lorena Peña Brito.
2015 “Registro 04”, Marco Museum, Monterrey, Mexico. Curated by Gonzalo Ortega.
2015 “La Gravedad de los Asuntos”, Polytech Museum, Moscow, Russia.
2015 “La Gravedad de los Asuntos”, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico.
2014 “En Hombros de Gigantes”, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico. curated by David Miranda.
2014 “Estudio de Trazo”, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico. Curated by Graciela Kasep.
2014 Zsona Maco, Art Fair with Steve Turner Contemporary, Mexico.
2013 “De Fracturas Discontinuidades y Brechas”, Altiplano Gallery, Mexico City.
2013 “Art Baja Tijuana”, Casa GS, Tijuana, México.
2013 Zona Maco, Art Fair with Steve Turner Contemporary, México.
2013 “Proyecto Basurto”, Steve Turner Contemporary, Mexico.
2011 “Machina/Medium/Apparatus”, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City. Curated by Karla Jasso.
2011 “Art Room Talent”, Mexico City.
2010 “Constante, la Nueva Babilonia”, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico. Curated by Guillermo Santamarina.
2010 “Paisaje después del temblor” (Landscape after the earthquake), Galería Luis Adelantado, Mexico. Curated by Guillermo Santamarina.
2009 “El Resplandor”, Dance Hall Los Angeles, Mexico. Curated by Pilar Villela.
2008 “Cooperative in video art”, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico.
2008 “Bienal of art in glass”, Glass Museum, Monterrey, Mexico.
2008 “NTSC.MX.PAL”, Spain Cultural Center, Mexico.
2008 “Multimedia Images in a complex world”, Centro Multimedia del Centro Nacional de las Artes, México.
2008 “Mexico, New York, Paris”, Estación Indianilla Cultural Center, Mexico.
2007 XXVII Venta anual de arte contemporáneo, Grupo de los Dieciséis, Mexico.
2007 “Social Events”, Arte Mexicano Gallery, Mexico.
2007 “Locus Solus: talks of inanimate reason at the country estate”, Myto Gallery, Mexico. Curated by Jennifer Teets.
2007 “Monumenta”, interventions on public monuments, Mexico City.
2006 “True Fantasies”, The 3rd Internacional Video-Art Bienal, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2006 “Creation in Movement”, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico.
2006 “Ntsc-mx-pal”, Photospain, Mexican Institute in Spain, Madrid, Spain.
2005 “Creation in movement”, Morelia’s Museum of Art, Mexico.
2005 “In the Air; Projections of México”, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA. Screening curated by Maria Cristina Villaseñor.
2004 “X años, La Esmeralda at CENART”, Central Gallery, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico.
2004 “Pinche Malinche”, 10º Internacional festival of Photography, Huesca Image, Spain.
2004 “Beyond the Poseidon Adventure”, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Germany. Curated by Ximena Cuevas.
2003 “Landspace”, Panoramic", The Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico. Curated by Tatiana Cuevas.
2003 “Beyond the Poseidon Adventure”, Festival L´Alternativa, Barcelona, Spain.
2003 “Cooperative in video art”, Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico.
2003 “Risk/Riesgo”, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico.
2003 “NO ESCAPE/ MEDIA DISSONANCE”, Ocularis, New York, USA.
2003 “Mexican Sensationalism”, Cineteca Nacional, Mexico.
2003 “Witness”, MUCA Roma, Mexico. Cutared by Sol Henaro and Ivan Edeza.
2003 “Beyond the Poseidon Adventure”, Video Mundi Festival, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago.
2003 “Beyond the Poseidon Adventure”, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, USA. Curated by Ximena Cuevas.
Fellowships, grants and prizes
2020-23 Sistema Nacional de Creadores, FONCA.
2020 Residency program, Casa Wabi, Oaxaca, Mx.
2018 Official selection, “Ejercicios de la Desaparición” (Exercises on disappearance), Norberto Griffa Prize, Bienal de Imagen en Movimiento, Argentina.
2012 Young Creators Grant, New Mediums, National Fund for Culture and the Arts, Mx.
2011 Residency program, FONCA and Secretaría de Cultura, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2008 Honorific mention for "Módulo 3", Bienal del vidrio, Monterrey, Mx.
2004 Young Creators Grant, New Mediums, National Fund for Culture and Arts, Mx.
Publications
2021 “The Waning Glow of a star”, Fabiola Torres-Alzaga, Comisiones a destiempo, ESPAC.
2020 Artist page,"Texto+cine+alquimia", diSONARE, magazine. No.8
2019 "Historias de la Noche", Fabiola Torres-Alzaga, Mara Fortes, ESPAC, Mexico.
2018 “Impresiones del Tiempo”, ESPAC. Written by Laura Orozco. Catalog.
2017 Artist page, “Perro y gato”, Eras Magazine, No.1
2016 “Registro 04”, Museo Marco de Monterrey, Mexico. Written by Daniel Garza Usabiaga. Catalog.
2015 “Entre Actos: Fabiola Torres-Alzaga”, Museo Universitario del Chopo, UNAM.
2008 “Imágenes multimedia de un mundo complejo”, Mexico. Catalog.
2008 “2th Bienal de Arte en Vidrio”, Glass Museum, Mexico. Catalog.
2004 "Memories 2004", Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros (SAPS), Conaculta INBA, Mexico. Catalog.
2003 Artist page, Millennium Journal Film, Magazine, vol.41, New York, USA.
2003 Artist page, Felix: A journal of media arts and communication, Magazine, vol. RISK. New York. USA.
Bibliography and reviews
2022 "Fabiola Torres-Alzaga: "Lo que me gusta de la ilusión es que es un espacio de resistencia ante lo que se impone", PrimeraPágina. Written by Giovanna Enríquez.
2021 “Coreography of distances”, MUAC. Written by Virginia Roy.
2021 “Un montón de pensamientos tras un visionado: Actos de ilusión, de Fabiola Torres-Alzaga”. GasTV. Written by Sandra Sanchez.
2021 "Lo que no vemos, lo dejamos de lado: Fabiola Torres-Alzaga" Written by Ana Laura Tagle Cruz. La Crónica (newspaper).
2021 "Ójala lo que vivimos nos lleve a dejar de buscar la verdad en la imagen" Written by Sonia Sierra.El universal (newspaper).
2018 "We were never contemporary", Frieze Magazine, written by Dorothée Dupuis.
2017 "It's all smoke and mirrors", interview by Paulina Ascencio, Issue 9, Terremoto Magazine.
2016 “Entre actos y magia”, Periódico Milenio. Written by Magali Tercero.
2016 “#somoscreadores, 200 artistas emergentes”, Chrysler 200. Curated by Andrea Chauvet.
2013 “House of Games”, Revista Arte al Día. Written by Mireille Torres.
2012 “El Acceso a la Ilusión se paga con la aceptación del engaño” (Access to Illusion is paid with acceptance of the deception) El Ornitorringo Tachado. Vol. 1. Written by Naomi Rincón Gallardo.
2011 “Aquelarre Interactivo”, Reforma Newpaper. Written by Cuauhtemoc Medina.
2010 “Fabiola Torres-Alzaga. Reflejos e Ilusiones”, Exit Express, Spain, Vol. 50. Written by Daniel Garza Usabiaga.
2007 “Entre la Literalidad y el enigma”, Cuauhtémoc Medina, El Ojo Breve, Reforma Newspaper.
2007 "Memories 2003-06", Catalog, Muca Roma, Mexico.
2007 "Alteran Creadoras Estatuas", Diana Gutiérrez, Cultura, Reforma Newspaper.
2007 "Contemporary Art 2007", Catalog, Grupo de los Dieciséis, Mexico.
2006 "Videozone3", Catalog, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2004 "Dos creadoras convierten ilusiones ópticas en arte", Merry Mac Masters, Cultura, La Jornada Newspaper.
2004 “Entre Reflejos y Sombras”(Between illusions and shadows), Reforma Newspaper. Written by Cuauhtémoc Medina.
2004 32th Cervantino International Festival, Catalog, Conaculta, FIC, Mexico
Education
1999-2004 A Fine Art Degree in “La Esmeralda School of Fine Arts”, Mexico.
1997-1999 Active School of Photography, Mexico.
Teaching
2020 Counseling in the Educational Program, SOMA, Mexico.
2018 “The moving image”, Seminar in the photographic production, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico.
2018 “Geographies of illusory space” workshop, SOMA, Mexico
2018 “Clinic of Movement image”, Centro Cultural El Rule, Mexico.
2017 Seminario de producción fotográfica, impartición del taller de imagen-movimiento, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico.
2017 La herramienta justa, Herrateca, Obrera Centro, Mexico.
2016 “To think the moving image”, Faro Aragón, México.
2016 “Anatomy of the moving image”, Expanded cinema, MUAC, Mexico.