MANUELA DE LABORDE

Manuela De Laborde (Mexico City, 1989) Manuela De Laborde's work has aesthetic claims of pleasure, but its purpose is deeply conceptual. Based in Mexico City, the artist's work evolves around a quest to locate and isolate concepts that are built around tangible elements. By uncovering elements, Laborde regenerates the image and positions it in new formations, creating new virtual spaces. Laborde has previously conducted contemporary art courses for children, guiding and encouraging them to experiment with abstract and conceptual practices. Her work has been exhibited at IFFR (29), FICUNAM (20), FIDMARSEILLE (20), TIFF (16), 25FPS - GRAND PRIX (16), WNDX - Best International Short (16), FMIC (16), Milwaukee UFF (16), Seffbinghampton (15), Jihlava IDFF (15), Antimatter FF (15) and London MexFest (13), 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_VideoBrasil (17), 25fps F Zagreb - Grand Prix (16) among others. 

16.03.2021 —

06.04.2022

During her residency, the artist Manuela de Laborde will activate workshops for the children of this community, using art as a tool for accompaniment and creation. The artist is interested in abstraction as a way of creating that is empathetic, it does not impose something that must be well executed to begin to figure, it is flexible with its diverse aptitudes. Abstraction is more than an escape from reality, Manuela sees it as a process of rapprochement.  Her goal is to make the classes a process that has a continuation, her interest is that everyone has their own piece to which they return to intervene in each class and also find an emotion and center and can see themselves reflected in their work.  Similarly, they have worked recycling leftover materials to generate awareness that in the creative processes not only the work of art is created, but also waste is created. 

EXERCISES DURING THE RESIDENCY:

• To work with recycled materials and give them a new meaning.

• Without the need for previous knowledge, the children will appropriate the techniques and materials.

• To use abstraction as an empathetic way of creating.

• Create a flexible space for diverse skills.

• To make the workshops a process with continuation for the execution of the pieces, as well as for the child-artist relationship.