María José Machado “Our mortal condition, the time that pulses and the uncertainty of the soul are the topics that are constantly present in my work and that give it its melancholic and weary character. I tend to work a lot with objects that mean something to me, they are the symbols of memory, the tangible representation of its remembrances.”
I create pieces of art as an effort to fight oblivion, the ephemeral and death. "Although it seems a useless task it is a way to please her spirit, which knows it is suffering, agonizing, but above all alive."
She was born and has lived in Mexico City all her life. She studied fashion design, more by quirks of fate than by conviction; she was actually always inclined to plastic arts and literature.
Collage, monotype and sands are the techniques she uses most. Both motif and texture are valued.
Although her career is in its infancy, her work has been shown in several group exhibitions in which she has shared the wall with great exponents of Mexican painting.
These exhibitions were, to mention a few:
“La caja de Pinocho”, ("Pinocchio's Box") in 2014, in which she participated along with artists of the stature of Felipe Ehremberg, Alberto Castro Leñero, Gabriel Macotela and Miguel Angel Alamilla, among others.
“AutoRetrato”, ("Self-portrait") in which she participated along with Irma Palacios, Francisco Castro Leñero, Gustavo Monroy and Eloy Tarcisio, among others.
“Paisajes, de quienes no hacemos paisajes”, ("Landscapes, from us who do not make Landscapes") in 2016, in which Philip Bragar, Gustavo Perez, Manuela Generalli and Francisco Icaza, participated among others. She is currently working on a solo exhibition “La vida tanto como la muerte” ("Life As Well As Death") and on the book of poetry, collage and engraving with the same name.
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