Lorena Wolffer

Walking together: for them and for us

Soymujerporque

Soymujerporque is a project that collects phrases taken from the internet to reveal and refute mandates associated with the behaviour and creation  of the labels for woman.

The phrases embroidered in red thread on a blanket are statements obtained randomly from the network, which circulated in an exhibition at Ex-Teresa Arte Actual in Mexico City and in public spaces in Morelia, Michoacán (the latter in the form cards) between 2013 and 2014

Lorena Wolffer (México, 1971)

For more than twenty years, the work of the artist and cultural activist Lorena Wolffer has been a permanent site for enunciation and resistance at the intersection of art, activism, and feminism. 

Her work revolves primarily around gender and seeks the rights, agency, and voices of women and people with non-normative identities. From the creation of radical cultural interventions with diverse communities to the elaboration of new pedagogical models for the collective development of situated knowledge, these projects take place within an arena that recognizes the relevance of experimental languages and shifts the border between what we know as high and low culture.

BIO

Wolffer has organized various exhibitions and artistic and cultural events, due to the importance that she has given in her career to cultural promotion. Wolffer comments in an interview: "I consider that my work as a promoter of the work of other artists, teacher of workshops and courses, and writer are as important as my own work”.

 As a promoter of experimental art, she has organized artistic events among the Highlights: Dangerous Terrain / Danger Zone in 1995, Embroidered Fashions of Modern Dreams in 1996, Signs of Resistance in 2000, Urban Krimen? in 2001, [Re] considering the performance in 2003, Top Models Mazahuacholoskatopunk between 2006 and 2007, among others. On the other hand, he has taught courses, workshops and art diplomas at the Cultural Center of Spain, the National Center for the Arts, the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving "La Esmeralda" and the University of the Cloister of Sor Juana, Ciudad from Mexico, among others. She has also given conferences both in national and international venues, she has directed radio and television programs (such as Black Box) and her texts have been published in cultural magazines, newspapers and books.

In addition, Wolffer has held several positions of relevance in the cultural world, she has been co-founder and director of the Ex-Teresa Alternative Art of the National Institute of Fine Arts between 1994 and 1996, she was a member of the New Generation council, Festival of the Historic Center of the City from Mexico between 1998 and 2000, a member of the Editorial Board of the Culture section of the newspaper Reforma in 1999, she was an advisor to the Coordination of Cultural Diffusion of the UNAM between 2004 and 2007, she was a member of the Arts Committee of the Metropolitan Autonomous University between 2010 and 2012, in 2013 he was part of the UNAM Council of Culture, among other positions. Not to mention that since 2007 she has been part of the Advisory Council of the Museum of Mexican Women Artists (MUMA) and since 2015 she has been part of the Curatorial Council of Ex Teresa Arte Actual. 

WORKS INCLUDED IN THE EXHIBITION