Alejandra Lopez Yasky
Alejandra Lopez Yasky
Alejandra López Yasky (1973) was born in Hermosillo, Sonora. She currently lives and works in Mexico City and Buenos Aires.
She studied cinematography first at the University of Buenos Aires, in Image and Sound Design, and then at the Center for Cinematographic Training, C.C.C., in Mexico City. From 1995 she lives between London and Berlin where he takes painting and set design workshops discovering a deep interest in contemporary art. Some years later she decides to return to Mexico to study at the National Art School “La Esmeralda” and graduates publishing her thesis Characters based on the philosophical concept of Rizhome by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
In the last years she has dedicated her search especially to investigate the Universe through the nature of painting, experimenting with different techniques and mediums: oil, water-soluble oil, acrylic, pigments, wax, paper, canvas, wood, assembly of objects and collage. Appropriating images taken from popular science tools from various eras, deconstructing them and creating new constellations of meaning.
The luminous and dark elements that originate her work intend to traverse and dissect different points of the geographical physical space that brings us closer to the western iconographic tradition of the Universe.
-I am interested in accentuating the border between the known and the unknown, the already seen and the mystery, and reconstructing a personal space that immerses us in an intimate and cosmic dimension.-
Throughout her career she has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Mexico and abroad.
She is currently participating in the collective exhibition Imaginario Coyolxauhqui at the Banco de México Museum.
Her most recent project, Luminosa Entropía (Luminous Entropy), was exhibited at the Drexel Gallery in Monterrey, Nuevo León in December 2021. Particularly noteworthy are: ETHER, a project that opened in January 2020 at the Museo de la Chancillería, The Time Before the Present, exhibited at the Traeger & Pinto gallery in 2017. In 2018 she participated at the Lumen Parameter 03 Art Biennial based at the Mexico City Museum. In 2019 she took part in the exhibition Territories of Memory, curated by José Manuel Springer at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City. SENSUS, a site-specific project that she set up in 2012 in the Universe hall of the Museum of Natural History, in Mexico City and the renowned collective exhibition 50 Women, 50 Works, 50 Years, which opened at the Mexico City Museum in March 2020, Mexico City.
In addition to painting, Alejandra López Yasky —Aleloyas—, has illustrated in publications such as Tierra Adentro and in Argentine books for which she has written texts, highlighting her writing in the catalog of the exhibition The Lost Alphabet of the artist Andrés Waissman, held at the Jewish Museum of Buenos Aires in 2007. She participated in the Havana Biennial in 2000 and her work has been published in national and international magazines and catalogs. In 2011 she was a fellow at the ARNA project residency in Harlösa, Sweden, and recently, in the Summer of 2023, at the Aviario Studio Residency, at Ferreira Do Zézere, Portugal, where she carried out ceramic and screen printing projects.
Resident in July 2023
Nationality: Mexico