(for english please scroll down) Mili Herrera
Ojo caudal (o lágrimas de cocodrilo)
29 ene - 24 abr, 2022 www.paralleloaxaca.com Parallel /// Oaxaca se complace en presentar la primera exposición individual de Mili Herrera en la galería, titulada Ojo caudal (o ágrimas de cocodrilo). Mili Herrera es una artista con una práctica que abarca medios como el dibujo, la pintura, la escultura, el performance y la imagen en movimiento; combinando un cuerpo de trabajo tanto personal como político. Su trabajo contrasta imaginarios emocionales y paisajes oníricos como expresiones abiertas donde se pueden encontrar conexiones crudas y urgentes. Su práctica conecta ecos autobiográficos como una narrativa expandida, donde sus obras nos presentan personajes que se revelan y trascienden experiencias trágicas, actuando con un impulso de deseo hacia estrategias de supervivencia y revelación. En la exposición Ojo caudal (o lágrimas de cocodrilo) en Parallel /// Oaxaca, Mili Herrera amplía el concepto de autotomía cuadal, una auto-amputación voluntaria que es utilizada por muchas especies en el mundo natural como estrategia anti-depredación, por ejemplo las lagartijas que se separan la cola para escapar a los depredadores. Las obras de la exposición se proponen explorar como un mapa de memorias y símbolos donde personajes y criaturas aparecen en medio de una representación críptica de la naturaleza y cascajos o desechos vegetales. Los personajes confrontan sus presencias y cuerpos segmentados para luego proliferar como tramas narrativas y acciones. Un personaje, el Caballero, se le mira mutilándose su propio ojo y también robando un ojo de un árbol sobrenatural/primordial. Las acciones y los deseos de los personajes evolucionan como flujos del reemplazo, del dominio y la restauración, y a medida que pasa el tiempo, los espectadores dan forma a sus cuerpos, movimientos y fortalezas como un proceso de orientación a través de la escala, de pistas visuales de transición y de sensaciones físicas. Mili Herrera (Oaxaca, 1995) Cursó la carrera de artes visuales en la ENPEG “La Esmeralda” de 2014 a 2020. Ha impartido talleres de dibujo con Colectivo Distropía en la costa oaxaqueña y en Cine Too, de la sierra norte. En 2017 obtuvo por la HEAD- Geneve en Ginebra Suiza (Escuela superior de Artes y Diseño -en español-) una beca para un intercambio académico anual. Formó parte del colectivo YOPE Projects 2018-19. Ha participado en exposiciones colectivas como, Museo Carrillo Gil, No Hacer Nada Clavel Colectiva Curatorial (2020), Biquini Wax Galería (CDMX, 2020), Mashimón (CDMX,2019) y Yope Projects (2018) /// ENG /// Mili Herrera
Caudal eye (or crocodile tears)
29 jan - 24 apr, 2022 www.paralleloaxaca.com Parallel /// Oaxaca is pleased to present Mili Herrera's first solo exhibition at the gallery, entitled Caudal eye (or crocodile tears). Mili Herrera is an artist with a practice that spans media such as drawing, painting, sculpture, performance and moving image, combining a body of work that is both personal and political. Her work points out emotional imaginaries and onyrical dreamscapes as open expressions where raw and urgent connections can be found. Her practice connects autobiographical echoes as an expanded narrative, where her works introduce us to characters who reveal themselves and transcend tragic experiences, acting with an impulse of desire towards strategies of survival and revelation. In the exhibition Caudal eye (or crocodile tears) at Parallel /// Oaxaca, Mili Herrera expands the concept of Cuadal autotomy, a voluntary self-amputation that is used by many species in the natural world as a anti-predation strategy, for example the lizards who brake their tails to leave for predators so they can escape. The works in the exhibition are proposed to be explore as a map of memories and symbols where characters and creatures appear in the midst of a cryptic representation of nature and a vegetational debris, The characthers confront their segmented presences and bodies to then proliferate as knitted narratives and actions. One character, the Knight, is seeing both self-detaching its own eye and also stealing an eye from a unearthly/primordial tree. The characters actions and desires evolve as flows of replacement, dominance and restoration, and as time evolves, the viewers shape their bodies, movements and strengths as a process of orientation through scale, transitional visual clues and physical sensations. Mili Herrera (Oaxaca, 1995) Studied visual arts at the ENPEG "La Esmeralda" from 2014 to 2020. In 2017 she obtained a scholarship for an annual academic exchange from HEAD-Geneve in Geneva, Switzerland (Higher School of Arts and Design). She was part of the YOPE Projects collective 2018-19. She has participated in collective exhibitions such as Museo Carrillo Gil, Do Nothing Clavel Collective Curatorial (2020), Biquini Wax Gallery (CDMX, 2020), Mashimón (CDMX, 2019) and Yope Projects (2018).
Mili Herrera Caudal Eye (or crocodile tears) at Parallel /// Oaxaca
Mili Herrera Against opacity (caudal autotomy), (2022) Aerography on linen, colour pencil, oil and acrilyc paint, ceramic, tin work and copper earings 210 x 170 x 35 cm
Mili Herrera Against opacity (caudal autotomy), (2022) Aerography on linen, colour pencil, oil and acrilyc paint, ceramic, tin work and copper earings 210 x 170 x 35 cm
Mili Herrera Against opacity (caudal autotomy), (2022) Aerography on linen, colour pencil, oil and acrilyc paint, ceramic, tin work and copper earings 210 x 170 x 35 cm
Mili Herrera Against opacity (caudal autotomy), (2022) Aerography on linen, colour pencil, oil and acrilyc paint, ceramic, tin work and copper earings 210 x 170 x 35 cm
Mili Herrera Against opacity (caudal autotomy), (2022) Aerography on linen, colour pencil, oil and acrilyc paint, ceramic, tin work and copper earings 210 x 170 x 35 cm
Mili Herrera Against opacity (caudal autotomy), (2022) Aerography on linen, colour pencil, oil and acrilyc paint, ceramic, tin work and copper earings 210 x 170 x 35 cm
Mili Herrera Against opacity (caudal autotomy), (2022) Aerography on linen, colour pencil, oil and acrilyc paint, ceramic, tin work and copper earings 210 x 170 x 35 cm
Mili Herrera Against opacity (caudal autotomy), (2022) Aerography on linen, colour pencil, oil and acrilyc paint, ceramic, tin work and copper earings 210 x 170 x 35 cm
Mili Herrera Against opacity (caudal autotomy), (2022) Aerography on linen, colour pencil, oil and acrilyc paint, ceramic, tin work and copper earings 210 x 170 x 35 cm
Mili Herrera Against opacity (caudal autotomy), (2022) Aerography on linen, colour pencil, oil and acrilyc paint, ceramic, tin work and copper earings 210 x 170 x 35 cm
Mili Herrera Against opacity (caudal autotomy), (2022) Aerography on linen, colour pencil, oil and acrilyc paint, ceramic, tin work and copper earings 210 x 170 x 35 cm
Mili Herrera Against opacity (caudal autotomy), (2022) Aerography on linen, colour pencil, oil and acrilyc paint, ceramic, tin work and copper earings 210 x 170 x 35 cm
Mili Herrera Caudal Eye (or crocodile tears) at Parallel /// Oaxaca
Mili Herrera Lágrimas de cocodrilo, (2022) / Colour pencil on paper works: 27.9 x 35.6 cm with frame: 38 x 45 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Mili Herrera Lágrimas de cocodrilo, (2022) / Colour pencil on paper works: 27.9 x 35.6 cm with frame: 38 x 45 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Mili Herrera Al morir ser flor, (2022) / Aerography on paper, colour pencil, metal cage, acrylic paint and feather, 165 x 190 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Mili Herrera Al morir ser flor, (2022) / Aerography on paper, colour pencil, metal cage, acrylic paint and feather, 165 x 190 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Mili Herrera Al morir ser flor, (2022) / Aerography on paper, colour pencil, metal cage, acrylic paint and feather, 165 x 190 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Mili Herrera Al morir ser flor, (2022) / Aerography on paper, colour pencil, metal cage, acrylic paint and feather, 165 x 190 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Mili Herrera Al morir ser flor, (2022) / Aerography on paper, colour pencil, metal cage, acrylic paint and feather, 165 x 190 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Mili Herrera Al morir ser flor, (2022) / Aerography on paper, colour pencil, metal cage, acrylic paint and feather, 165 x 190 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Mili Herrera Al morir ser flor, (2022) / Aerography on paper, colour pencil, metal cage, acrylic paint and feather, 165 x 190 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Mili Herrera Al morir ser flor, (2022) / Aerography on paper, colour pencil, metal cage, acrylic paint and feather, 165 x 190 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Mili Herrera Al morir ser flor, (2022) / Aerography on paper, colour pencil, metal cage, acrylic paint and feather, 165 x 190 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Mili Herrera Al morir ser flor, (2022) / Aerography on paper, colour pencil, metal cage, acrylic paint and feather, 165 x 190 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Mili Herrera Al morir ser flor, (2022) / Aerography on paper, colour pencil, metal cage, acrylic paint and feather, 165 x 190 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Mili Herrera Al morir ser flor, (2022) / Aerography on paper, colour pencil, metal cage, acrylic paint and feather, 165 x 190 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Mili Herrera Al morir ser flor, (2022) / Aerography on paper, colour pencil, metal cage, acrylic paint and feather, 165 x 190 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Mili Herrera, Atlas 2022. Aerography on fiberglass, plexyglass structure 2 eyeballs + 1 plexyglass structure. Parallel /// Oaxaca (2022)
Mili Herrera, Atlas 2022. Aerography on fiberglass, plexyglass structure 2 eyeballs + 1 plexyglass structure. Parallel /// Oaxaca (2022)
Mili Herrera, Atlas 2022. Aerography on fiberglass, plexyglass structure 2 eyeballs + 1 plexyglass structure. Parallel /// Oaxaca (2022)
Mili Herrera, Atlas 2022. Aerography on fiberglass, plexyglass structure 2 eyeballs + 1 plexyglass structure. Parallel /// Oaxaca (2022)
Mili Herrera La lluvia era fría pero atravesaba la armadura, (2022) / Colour pencil on paper works: 17.8 x 25.4 cm with frame: 28 x 35 cm . Parallel /// Oaxaca
Mili Herrera Caudal Eye (or crocodile tears) at Parallel /// Oaxaca
Mili Herrera Testigo se encuentra en el espejo, (2022) / Colour pencil on paper works: 27.9 x 35.6 cm with frame: 38 x 45 cm Parallel /// Oaxaca
Mili Herrera El escorpión desnudo (2022) / Colour pencil on paper works: 25.4 x 17.8 cm with frame: 35 x 28 cm. Parallel /// Oaxaca
Mili Herrera El arco y la flecha, (2022) / Colour pencil on paper works: 17.8 x 25.4 cm with frame: 28 x 35 cm . Parallel /// Oaxaca
Mili Herrera, Atlas 2022. Aerography on fiberglass, plexyglass structure 2 eyeballs + 1 plexyglass structure. Parallel /// Oaxaca (2022)
Mili Herrera, Atlas 2022. Aerography on fiberglass, plexyglass structure 2 eyeballs + 1 plexyglass structure. Parallel /// Oaxaca (2022)
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