Bárbara Perea Legorreta
Born in 1974 in Mexico City, Mexico
Lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico
Barbara Perea is a Mexico City-based contemporary art critic and curator, with a special focus on electronic, sound art and video. She has a degree in Art History (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City).
She has published over 50 reviews and essays in the magazines Dónde ir (Mexico City),Artecontexto (Madrid), and Artlies (Houston) and contributed to the following exhibition catalogues:Plataforma Puebla 2006 (Puebla, 2006), Arnulf Rainer: la imagen equivocada (Mexico, 2007) Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Some Things Happen More Often Than All of The Time (Madrid, 2007), Yvonne Domenge: Procesos, (2009), amongst others, and is currently preparing the exhibition catalogue for Transitio_mx, the International Electronic Art and Video Festival.
Selected texts
2011 – Enrique Ježik : Obstruct, Destroy, Conceal – in ArteContexto, Madrid, #31. read online. p.84
2011 – Meditaciones sobre un jardín trashumante y otros relatos: prácticas artísticas desde el no lugar – in Identidad provisional: 1era entrega. Libro de las memorias de Casa Vecina a sus cinco años de trabajo. Fundación del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México, pp 91-109.
2011 – Regina José Galindo: Mobile – in ArteContexto, Madrid, #29. read online. (pp. 93-94).
2009 – False positives: a recursive chronicle from the Deus Ex-Machina in the Age of Technoscientific Disenchantment – Art Lies, a Contemporary Art Quarterly. University of Texas Press. Issue no. 63. Fall, 2009. Gues editorial contributor. (read Online)
2009 – Iván Abreu: Safe – ArteContexto, Madrid, #23.
2009 – Arte y Acción colectiva en México – Dossier/ Art collectives in Latina America.
2009 – ArteContexto,Madrid # 18. (read online).
2008 – Por favor. Gracias. De nada. Reenactments – ArteContexto, Madrid, #17.
2007 – Misogyny as Feminism – Art Lies, a Contemporary Art Quarterly. University of Texas Press. Issue no. 54, 2007. (read Online)
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