私の作品は主に、従来の構造の限界について研究しています。多分野にわたる実践を通して、私はドローイング、ペインティング、写真、ビデオ、彫刻、インスタレーションを、他者性とその複雑さを理解するための手段として利用しています。
私が取り組むプロジェクトの多くは、日常の公共生活に根ざした長期間のリサーチや、個人的な経験から得る夢や感情と言ったユートピア的空間の探求から生まれます。
私の実践における主な関心事は、共感的な関係の探求であり、特に自分自身とのつながりというしばしば見過ごされがちなことに焦点を当てています。この内省は、個人的な自己がより広い社会的文脈にどのように浸透し、相互作用するかを理解する上で極めて重要な役割を果たします。
架空の枠組みを通じて疎外の瞬間を作ることにより、私の作品は幻想のメカニズムについて考察します。それは潜在的な現実を明らかにし、日常生活との新しい関わり方を提案します。
My work is focused on studying the limits of conventional structures. Through a multidisciplinary practice, I employ drawing, painting, photography, video, sculpture, and installation as vehicles in the search for an understanding of otherness and its complexity.
The projects I delve into, stem from often long term research rooted in everyday public life and the exploration of utopian spaces, such as the oneiric or the affective, from personal experience.
A fundamental concern in my practice is the exploration of empathetic relationships, with a particular focus on the often-overlooked connection we hold with ourselves. This self-reflection plays a pivotal role in understanding how the intimate self permeates and interacts with broader societal contexts.
By constructing moments of estrangement through fictional frameworks, my work examines illusionary mechanisms that reveal latent realities and propose new ways of engaging with everyday life.
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**Achievements and Recognitions**
2023 Beneficiary of the PECDA program, Veracruz, Mexico.
2023 Selected for the Pictoline Illustration Biennial, Mexico City, Mexico.
2022 Selected for the Julio Castillo Painting Biennial, Querétaro, Mexico.
2022 Selected for a short residency at HANGAR, Barcelona, Spain.
2013 Selected for Portfolio Review Program, MUAC, Mexico.
2009 Selected for the FEMSA Biennial – Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
2009 Selected at Arte40 – Vasconcelos Library, Mexico City, Mexico.
**Exhibitions**
*Solo*
2024 Emulsiones somnográficas – Tlaxcala 3, Mexico City, Mexico.
2023 Suave remanso – Contemporary Art Gallery, Xalapa, Mexico.
2021 Neurocama – Espacio Unión, Mexico City, Mexico.
2020 Tiki Tiki – Salón Malafama, Mexico City, Mexico.
2013 Arcoíris Lumpen: Flama Aura Druzy – Vértigo Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
2010 Secret Spells – Fifty24MX, Mexico City, Mexico.
*Group*
2024 Artefacto – La Mata, Coffee Benefit, Coatepec, Veracruz.
2023 Lumbre – University Museum of Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico.
2023 The Substance of Revelation – Tlaxcala 3, CROMA Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
2023 Selfish Heart – ACHE Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
2022 Like a Flock of Bats – On-site Essay / Fermín Gallery, Xalapa, Mexico.
2021 Theory of Spontaneous Generation – SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico.
2021 Great Salon Mexico – Mexican Cultural Center in France, Paris, France.
2019 Immigration – Kyoto Ba, Kyoto, Japan.
2017 Mira Guapa – José María Velasco Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
2016 20×16 Show – CASS Contemporary, Tampa, Florida, USA.
2013 The Mystery of Intersecting Paths – Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig, Germany + ENPEG La Esmeralda Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
2012 Drawing (a) Live – Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Mexico.
2011 The Most Important Thing Is the Easiest to Forget – Central Gallery, National Arts Center, Mexico City, Mexico.
**Education**
2023 – Master in Visual Arts – UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico.
2019 – 2021 SOMA Educational Program – Mexico City.
2007 – 2011 Bachelor’s Degree in Visual and Plastic Arts – National School of Painting, Sculpture, and Engraving “La Esmeralda,” Mexico City, Mexico.
2022 Residency in Screen Printing – Le Dernier Cri, Marseille, France.
2020 Residency in Lithography – La Ceiba Gráfica, Coatepec, Mexico.
2018 Printmaking Workshop – Daniel Berman Workshop, Coatepec, Mexico.
2017 Diploma in Art and Psychoanalysis – MUNAL, Mexico City, Mexico.
2013 Public Space Intervention Workshop “El Falso Milagro” with Sergio Zevallos – MUAC, Mexico City, Mexico.
2009 Seminar in Contemporary Photography – Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico.
2007 Free Painting Workshops – Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico.
2004-2006 Drawing Workshop with Per Anderson – Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico.
**Selected Publications**
*Print*
2023 Talking Body – Nohacernada.org, ESPAC.
2018 Complete Interiors of the Magazine – Issue 44, La Palabra y el Hombre.
2016 Eye Garden – Issue 218, Tierra Adentro.
*Digital*
2021 Today I Dreamed of the Dream of My Dreams – Sentimental Magazine.
2018 Local Illustrators: Elisa Malo – Local.Mx.
2010 The Art of Elisa Malo in Mexico City – Juxtapoz Magazine.
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**Elisa Malo**
Xalapa, Mexico, 1989
Visual Artist
Graduated from the National School of Painting, Sculpture, and Engraving “La Esmeralda” in the 2011 cohort, and a participant in the 2021 SOMA Educational Program. In 2009, she took part in the Contemporary Photography Seminar at Centro de la Imagen, where she developed her project “Tiki Tiki,” which was selected that same year for the FEMSA Biennial. In 2012, she participated in “Drawing a Live” at the Museum of Modern Art (MAM) and in the public space intervention workshop “El Falso Milagro” with Sergio Zevallos at MUAC. In 2016, she presented the action “Drawing to Remember or to Forget” within the framework of Tacita Dean’s exhibition at Tamayo Museum. In 2022, she was selected for a residency at HANGAR, Barcelona. Her most recent exhibition, “Suave Remanso,” opened in March 2023 at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Xalapa, Veracruz. She has had five solo exhibitions and has exhibited collectively in countries such as Mexico, the United States, Costa Rica, Brazil, and Japan. She was a beneficiary of the PECDA program in Veracruz in 2024 and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Visual Arts at UNAM. She lives and works in Mexico City, where she is developing her research on dream spaces.
