Artists
Mexico
Ireri Topete
MUTUALISMS
07.02.24 28.02.24
Ireri Topete dialogues with different conceptual planes, in the construction of images that are interwoven, interrupted, and integrated through engraving, ink drawing and transfer. Reiteration and variation make up a discourse rich in contrasting meanings. Pieces that, when recomposed in a translucent and delicate support, returns in visual metaphors a single landscape constructed of many others. The longing for the near, the habitual and every day that cannot be fully captured and that also has something of the other landscape, of which it is not proper.
ARTIST STATEMENT & TESTIMONY
For me it is important to talk about my time of the historical epoch that I have lived, and my current focus is on nature and its changes, I add my voice to that of many others that we are convinced that change is a reality, that the times we live asks us attention, care and responsibility Before the most valuable common good that counts humanity, planet Earth.
Being part of MUTUALISMS has been an enriching experience. I identified with several points that were discussed around the theme with which we worked during the residency. The exhibitions of both Daniela and Andy, I found very interesting, to present us a current panorama of artistic practices involving mutual processes. The presence of Rodrigo Arteaga as a guest artist was relevant and inspiring, he shared his projects processes and results, his work is an excellent example of a mutual process. Finally, I was very pleased with the sharing, learning and carrying out of a project together with my colleagues Nina and Eli, which was a challenge between the three of us. I’m happy and grateful with Proyecto´ace for fostering this space of encounter, now I can understand and distinguish more clearly how a project could realize to achieve a process of creation MUTUALISTA, with all the variables that this implies.
BIO
Elba Ireri Topete Camacho
1969 | Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
Lives and works in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
EDUCATION
2021 | Master of Education. University of Baja California campus Colima, Mexico
2010 | Bachelor of Visual Arts for Visual Expression. Academic Leveling, University of Guadalajara, CUAAD, Guadalajara, Jal., Mexico
1992 | Painting Technician, School of Plastic Arts, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara Jal., Mexico
EXHIBITIONS
2022 |Natural Persistence – Thermometers. Centre for Print Research (CFPR) University of the West of England (UWE), IMPACT 12, Bristol, England
2022 | Thermometers, Finished project. Omar Alonso Gallery, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
2021 | Thermometers, Virtual exhibition. IMPACT 11 Hong Kong, China
2021 | Natural Persistence (first and second year of work). Gallery Carlos Fuentes, Juan José Arreola Library, Ensemble of Performing Arts of the University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco
2019 | Termómetros, visual record of nature and its changes, (first year of work) Long Gallery, Newcastle University, England
Related Activities
Together Apart
# 8: Mutualisms | Results
Artists in Dialogue
07.02.24 28.02.24
In this new edition of Together Apart, we met again, this time under the title Mutualisms. During 4 weeks of intense exchange, 12 artists from different countries and cities collaborated and contributed to create this space of mutuality in which to freely explore their ideas.
In the words of Daniela Ruiz Moreno, program curator: “The 8th edition of Together Apart was, once more, a very gratifying surprise to us—
the coordinators and creators of the programme. It was very interesting to see how the individual interests of each artist were articulated with each other through collaboration across different disciplines, the generation of collective archives, and the invention of methodologies for coexistence. We were able to observe a gradual development, akin to an accumulation and metabolization of all the knowledge and information shared by the various team members and the invited artist, Rodrigo de Arteaga, as well as the invaluable knowledge shared by each participant. We explored alternative approaches to artistic practice, a different way of conceiving scientific knowledge, and acted in response to the urgent need for these two areas to collaborate more frequently. As one of the participants mentioned, the final session felt as watching -in a fast forward speed- a garden grow. Bringing back one of the philosophers who accompanied us during this program, I would like to quote again the words of Michael Marder regarding the writings of Hildegard von Bingen, a Benedictine abbess who in the 12th century was contemplating more holistic and spiritual approaches to ecology and the plant world. Hildegard proposes to look at the mystery of plantness, of greening greenness, of growth. I believe that the arts, in relation to many other forms of knowledge, serve as a vehicle to achieve an awareness of the interdependence inherent in all forms of life on this planet and a re-enchantment with the mystery that life forms entail. Each participant in this program allowed us to do just that, from observing the mystery of trees that make many fundamental cycles of our lives possible, to the landscapes that surround us and shape us, the different constructions and perceptions of time, to the intricate and not entirely straightforward relationship of our coexistence and co-creation with technology and nature.”
