Patricia Esquivias
Patricia Esquivias is a storyteller who utilizes video and installation to meld historical references with personal anecdotes. Her works are simultaneously narrative revelations and unraveling piles of string where fact and fiction overlap. She often narrates her videos and shares the links she finds between modernity, the natural world, colonialism, and memory. Her projects have juxtaposed the subway tiles found in New York and Madrid, and compared Galicia in Spain with New Galicia in Mexico, underscoring her continued interest in fashioning context for the way in which her audience might view the world. Her sculpted history prompts contemplation and discovery, seeking out the ways in which the world projects a particular persona or initiative ways that mirror our own personal impulses to do the same.
Esquivias has exhibited at Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland, MARCO, Vigo, Spain, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, MACBA, Barcelona, Tate Modern, London, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Michigan, Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building, New York, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Victoria, Kunsthalle-Basel, Switzerland, New Museum, New York, and City Gallery Prague, Czech Republic, among many others. The artist was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2006, the EAST Award and the Present …
Patricia Esquivias is a storyteller who utilizes video and installation to meld historical references with personal anecdotes. Her works are simultaneously narrative revelations and unraveling piles of string where fact and fiction overlap. She often narrates her videos and shares the links she finds between modernity, the natural world, colonialism, and memory. Her projects have juxtaposed the subway tiles found in New York and Madrid, and compared Galicia in Spain with New Galicia in Mexico, underscoring her continued interest in fashioning context for the way in which her audience might view the world. Her sculpted history prompts contemplation and discovery, seeking out the ways in which the world projects a particular persona or initiative ways that mirror our own personal impulses to do the same.
Esquivias has exhibited at Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland, MARCO, Vigo, Spain, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, MACBA, Barcelona, Tate Modern, London, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Michigan, Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building, New York, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Victoria, Kunsthalle-Basel, Switzerland, New Museum, New York, and City Gallery Prague, Czech Republic, among many others. The artist was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2006, the EAST Award and the Present Future Illy Award in 2007, and the Generación ’09 Prize in 2008, to name a few.
