Alexis Ibarra Ibarra, Blanca Rebeca Ibarra Ríos, and Alejandro Ibarra Roldán (MX)
Alexis Ibarra Ibarra is a Mexican visual artist, writer, researcher and curator of videogames and new media art. She has exhibited her work in Mexico, Denmark, and now in Poland. Driven by her inner chaos, she obsessively explores the intimate juxtaposition and contrast of beauty and monstrosity in her artistic and literary practice. She is the daughter of two architects that showed her how to see the world in terms of spaces and crazy possibilities.
Blanca Rebeca Ibarra Ríos is a Mexican architect and writer. She studied Architecture at The National Autonomous University of Mexico and is co-founder and co-director of Ibarra Arquitectos in Mexico City. She is a member of The College of Architects of Mexico City and a marvelous mother of three.
Alejandro Ibarra Roldán is a Mexican architect and traditional visual artist. He studied Architecture at The National Autonomous University of Mexico and is co-founder and co-director of Ibarra Arquitectos in Mexico City. He is a member of The College of Architects of Mexico City and a wonderful father of three.
Paper Cloud
2022-2023 / Mixed Media
ARTWORK DESCRIPTION
For two weeks, Alexis, who left Mexico City to study in Europe, communicated with her mother, Blanca Rebeca, through handwritten texts, and her father, Alejandro, through painting and illustration. Alexis asked her parents to engage in a game where they would share their experiences, thoughts, and emotions regarding their sense of belonging while inhabiting what they call "home," the cities they live or have lived in, and their inner spaces, as well as to disclose the hardships of missing each other and trying to find a way to connect despite living in different continents.
For the narrative compound of the piece, Alexis started a conversation with her mother: They would reply to each other by writing their thoughts on a piece of paper and sending a picture or scan of the text, mimicking the aesthetics of a messaging app. Similarly, for the visual compound of the piece, Alexis started an illustration that she scanned and sent to her father, who printed the image, continued the illustration, and sent a picture back. They followed the same process until the illustration was considered finished.
Using daily life technology and their own hands, the authors —a daughter, a mother, and a father— built together a new materializing virtual space where they could inhabit, coexist, and share on an intense and deep level in spite of distance and the lack of time. In this piece, by mixing analog and digital techniques, the ethereal communication that occurred in the cloud materialized on paper.
This fresh, liminal space was constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed by the artists —the sender-receivers— and the technology itself, which added noise, blurriness, and an unintended beauty to this new world: Three smartphones, two home scanners, two home printers, and the internet degraded and reshaped the images, words, and feelings that served as the prime materials to build, in a melancholic land, a cozy yet eerie home.
2022-2023 / Mixed Media
ARTWORK DESCRIPTION
For two weeks, Alexis, who left Mexico City to study in Europe, communicated with her mother, Blanca Rebeca, through handwritten texts, and her father, Alejandro, through painting and illustration. Alexis asked her parents to engage in a game where they would share their experiences, thoughts, and emotions regarding their sense of belonging while inhabiting what they call "home," the cities they live or have lived in, and their inner spaces, as well as to disclose the hardships of missing each other and trying to find a way to connect despite living in different continents.
For the narrative compound of the piece, Alexis started a conversation with her mother: They would reply to each other by writing their thoughts on a piece of paper and sending a picture or scan of the text, mimicking the aesthetics of a messaging app. Similarly, for the visual compound of the piece, Alexis started an illustration that she scanned and sent to her father, who printed the image, continued the illustration, and sent a picture back. They followed the same process until the illustration was considered finished.
Using daily life technology and their own hands, the authors —a daughter, a mother, and a father— built together a new materializing virtual space where they could inhabit, coexist, and share on an intense and deep level in spite of distance and the lack of time. In this piece, by mixing analog and digital techniques, the ethereal communication that occurred in the cloud materialized on paper.
This fresh, liminal space was constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed by the artists —the sender-receivers— and the technology itself, which added noise, blurriness, and an unintended beauty to this new world: Three smartphones, two home scanners, two home printers, and the internet degraded and reshaped the images, words, and feelings that served as the prime materials to build, in a melancholic land, a cozy yet eerie home.
Paper Cloud
Mexico
2022-2023
Mixed Media
Paper Cloud
Mexico
2022-2023
Mixed Media
Paper Cloud
Mexico
2022-2023
Mixed Media
Paper Cloud
Mexico
2022-2023
Mixed Media
