rosa mesa: Tired of Counting, 2011

Friday, October 7, 2011

Tired of Counting, 2011

Everything is reduce to money, Economy and numbers so it is life. The repetition, the emptiness invades our understanding of a world that tries to give economical value to everything on it.
Since childhood I have a conflict with numbers, they bore me, the abstraction of them move me away from the real, from what I consider real, from emotions, people, nature, life... In an economical world, everything is tiresome, jobs are transform in a parody, trap in this realm man can only count.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

rosa mesa

rosa mesa was born in Canary Islands and immigrate to Toronto, Canada in 1995. In 1996 she started her studies at the OCAD graduating in 2002.

She is a multidisplinary artist whose practice extend to installations, performance, video and public interventions. Her works are a response to her surroundings that become dissected and reconstructed in a new narrative that exposes whatever that triggers her in amusement or disgust.
Her practice is often based in an observant and humoristic approach to the work. Her pieces explore areas of semiotics and the art practice, identity, nomadism, migration, feminism and the hybrid and changing state of contemporary culture.

Since 2004 rosa works between Spain, Canada, Germany and Switzerland where she has been doing several art residencies. Today she lives in Berlin and Las Palmas. She has exhibited in Spain, Canada, Serbia, Corea, Japan, Switzerland, Germany , Brazil, France, Colombia, Venezuela and Cuba.

rosa mesa has worked with the german artist Thomas Proffe since 2005 and they get together every year to work in projects often in the realm of installations and public interventions. Through these encounters the artists search for enriching their practice through collaborative works as well as to explore the multidisciplinary art practice.

rosa mesa is also since 2010 and with the colombian artist Maria Linares part of the Daily Services art platform, a Berlin project based on the exploration of the artist in the public spaces and in conection to the diverse social issues that affect todays contemporary art culture.

rosa mesa´s interests are today a lot to do with what she consideres an emergency state of thought and her works are in continual search of new ways to deal with a ever-mutating contemporary culture. Her interest in reaching the audience is also explore mainly through the performance and public intervention mediums.

PERFORMANCE

2011 Series: I hate white: "Stained", presented at Kurt Forever, Saint Denis, Paris. 2010 Series : I hate White: "...toll for you", Madrid, AccionMAD, Madrid, Spain. "Reality Performance", Perfoartnet, October, 2010. Colombia Series: I hate White: "Brothers", LAs Palmas, Spain. "Secrets and Puppets", Epipiderme, A volta de performance, Lisbon 2009 X Havanna Biennial, International Festival of Performance and Audiovisuals, Cuba: "Glutony", 2009 "Lick-ing myself",2009 2008 "The Investors Corner", PROGR. Bern . Switzerland"Encounters with an allien Girl"1. "The Vanishing Ink", Zentrum 5. "The Vanishing Ink", Sao Paulo, represented in Perforola. "The HAnd that Rocks the Craddle", Colombia, presented by Perfoartnet. 2006 "Proyecto Jaume Sabartes", "Juegos Internacionales de Arte Efímero de Barcelona". 2005 "El Entierro de la Sardina", Spain, Centro de Arte La Regenta. 2004 "Talking to my Mother", performance and public intervention, Serbia.

PARTICIPATE

Collective exhibitions

2011 Kultur Palast, talk to me about Berlin. Audio piece.

2011 Festival Cuerpo y Mujer, Perú, Lima. Curated by María

2010 MECA, presentación de Audiovisuales, Almería, Spain.

2010 “Ich habe noch einen Koffer in Berlin”, curated by Maria Linares and presented at 48 Stunden Neukoelln.

2010 MECA, presentación de Audiovisuales, Almería, Spain.

2010 Festival de Video de La Haban, Proyecto Circo, curated by Ada Azor.

2009 Galerie Periferia, Ittingen, Switzerland.

2008 “Frontieres”, Museum d´art et d´histoire de Neuchatel,

curated by VISARTE, Switzerland

2008 “Alleluhiah”, Lokal.INT, Biel, Switzerland, curated by Chri F.

2006 “Islas Móviles”, La Granja, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, curated by OrlandoBrito.

2005 “Proyecto Plaça Jaume Sabartes”, III Juegos Internacionales de Arte Efímero de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

2005 Centro de Arte La Regenta, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

"Like a Fish out of Water", curated by Orlando Brito

2004 Biennial of Young Artists of Yugoslavia, Serbia “Talking to my Mother”, curated by Ingrid Mayhofer.

2003 Soft Art House, “Alucinarte”, Toronto, curated by Jorge Lozano.

2003 Propeller, “I am thirsty” , Toronto, curated by Nicola Woods.

2003 Gallery 1313, “Patching History”, Toronto, curated by the Loop Collective.

2003 OCAD Gallery, “Body Language”, Toronto.

2003 Here&Now Gallery, “Uncertenty”, Toronto.

2003 Shag Gallery, “Botánicas”, Toronto.

2002 Toronto Outdoor Exhibition, Toronto.

2002 The Distillery, Toronto.

2002 Art System, “More and More Curious”, Toronto, curated by Jubal Brown and Daniel Borins.

2002 Art System, “Super Sex”,Toronto, curated by Jubal Brown and Daniel Borins.

2002 Spin Gallery, “Go West”, Toronto.

2002 Cabildo Insular, “Esclavas de María”, Las Palmas

2002 Art System, “And Infinite Justice for All”, instalación, Toronto.

Solo exhibitions

2009 Festival Internacional de Video, Alucine. Toronto, Canada.

2008 “Visible Walls”, installation curated by Beate Engel, Bern.

2008 “When all the querubins went to hell”, LokalInt, Switzerland, curated by Chri F.

2007 “Kunstquadrate”, Essen, Germany, curated by Silvia Sonnesmicht.

2004 ZYPR, “Amarantos”, Toronto, curated by Beth Lowe.

2003 Zsa Zsa Gallery, “Cutting with a flower”, Toronto, curated by Andrew Hardword.

2003 Moon Bean Gallery, Toronto, curated by Martin Kuchar.

2002 Ne Plus Ultra Project, “Mit Inem Wort”, Toronto. Curated by Tiff Itza

2002 Come as you are, “Affections”, Toronto, curated by Cori Slander.

2002 Sim&Jones, “Print Series”, Toronto.

Grants and Prizes

1998 Honorable Mention, OCAD, Toronto.

2001 Honorable Mention, OCAD, Toronto.

2002 Printmaking Scholarship, OCAD, Toronto.

2004 Grant from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Canada.

2004 Beca de la Consejería de Cultura de Gran Canarias.

2004 Travel Grant from the Canada Council of the Arts.

2005 Exhibition Assistance, Canada.

2005 Beca de produccion, Consejeria de Cultura de Canarias.

2007 Residency, Visarte, Neuchatel, Switzerland.

2008 Residency, Visarte, Neuchatel, Switzerland.

2008 Residency, PROGR, Berna, Switzerland.

2008 Beca de Producción del Gobierno de Canarias.

2009 Beca de viaje, Canarias Crea, Gobierno de Canarias.

2009 Travel Grant, Canada Art Council

2010 Beca de viaje, Canarias Crea, Gobierno de Canarias.

2010 Stipendium Senado de Berlin

2011 Nomination Publikum Prize, 48 Stunden, Berlin.

2011 Nomination Beca Septenio, Spain.

2011 Madrid Procesos, 2011

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Friday, October 7, 2011

Tired of Counting, 2011

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