FRITZIA

Dates of residency: November till December 2017
Born: 1977
Nationality: Mexican
Lives and works: Culiacán, Mexico
Education:2002 BFA Escuela Nacional de Pintura Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda”
Selected shows:
2019 Mazatlanica, University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC), Mexico City
2019 CaCo3, Orange County Art Museum (OCMA), California
2015 Camaleón Blanco/JMAF, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan
2014 Obliteraciones, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City

THE ARTIST
The work of Fritzia Irízar plays with the economic and symbolic revaluation of objects when they pass from their common use to integrate themselves into art. Her work also explores the functionality of history and science, both built knowledge subject to the decision of a few individuals. Irízar took part in AIR-KREMS residency in 2013, Austria; obtained a grant from the French institute at Les Récollets in 2016, Paris and from the Headlands Center for the arts, San Francisco. Her work was part of the Mercosur Biennial in Porto Alegre from 2013 to 2015.  She was also part of the Cuenca Ecuador Biennial. Recently, the Mexican government has distinguished her as a member of the National Creators Program. 

THE RESIDENCY

During her residency at BAR , Irízar worked around the analysis of two concepts: obsolescence and equilibrium to create a project that tries to explore the nature of civilizations and their decadence represented by individual struggles as a reflection of collectiveness.Nature, human creations, circumstances, skills are placed in one scenario where mythology and reality, ancient and recent opulence and precariety symbols are dislocated to complete a puzzle of significance. 

This research laid the groundwork for Irizar’s video installation at Rashid Karami International Fair in Tripoli, North Lebanon. Designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in the early 1960’s, the concrete run-down structures of the fair were in dialogue with contemporary art as part of Cycles of Collapsing Progress, curated by Karina El Helou in 2018.

This residency was in partnership with Studiocur/art and supported by the Embassy of Mexico in Lebanon, Mitsulift & 22 degrees.