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Silvia Gruner
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biography
(b. Mexico City, Mexico, 1959).
Gruner obtained a Masters Degree from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Massachusetts, and a BA in art at the Betzalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, Israel. She currently lives and works in Mexico City. From the beginning of her career, Gruner has worked in diverse media such as film, video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and installation. Often using her own body, Gruner has explored multiple readings of the female body as it has been traditionally used to define spiritual, sexual, and national identity. Her work has involved the symbolic recreation and cultural reinterpretation of every day domestic and work objects, transforming the quotidian into fetishistic objects of cult or magic. Gruner's work establishes intimate and personal relationships with art and tradition by recontextualizing them within contemporary artistic problems, social and historical contexts, and public spaces. Her recent works examine the body as a depository of memory, within which various cultural traditions can be found. Examining the "feminine" as a cultural construction, a myth and a fetish, Gruner seeks to reformulate its history. In her installation La mitad del camino presented at inSITE94, she referred to the transfer, cultural exchange, and appropriations between the US and Mexico. Gruner has received solo exhibitions at Espace d'art Ivonamor-Palix, Paris (1999); The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California (1998); Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, among others. Her work has additionally been included in Así esta la cosa: Instalacíon y Arte objecto en Latinoamérica, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáno, Mexico City (1997); Distant Relations, an exhibition of contemporary Irish, Mexican, and Chicano Art, Camden Arts Center, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland and The Museum of Modern Art, Santa Monica, California(1996); and the 10th Biennale of Sidney, Australia, among others. Her films and videos have been included in numerous festivals, at such institutions as, The Guggenheim Museum, New York City; The Anthology Film Archives, New York City; The San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, California; and Centro Wilfredo Lam, Havana, Cuba. Courtesy: inSite 2000
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