Ana Bidart: Long Before the Walls

Delfina Foundation is pleased to present Long Before the Walls, the first European solo exhibition by Mexico-based Uruguayan artist Ana Bidart. Long Before the Walls introduces a constellation of newly commissioned, site-specific installations and interventions at the Delfina house.

Through playful yet earnest acts of sculpting and in-situ drawing, Bidart unpacks her ongoing contemplation of history as a construct, of the fluid parallels between drawing and writing, and of the poetics of spatial and temporal negotiation. Further inspired by a recent trip to study the prehistoric rock art in Serra da Capivara National Park in Brazil, Bidart attempts to embody the grammar of everyday mark making, flirting with the ghostly ‘noises’ of our surroundings and revealing layers of out-of-frame stories.

Artist biography

Ana Bidart (b.1985, Montevideo) is a visual artist based in the Yucatan Peninsula, working between Mexico and Uruguay. Her work has been exhibited in Latin America, the United States and Europe, including the National Museum of Visual Arts, Montevideo; Cabañas Museum, Guadalajara; Proyecto Paralelo, ESPAC and Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City; Bienvenu Steinberg & J Gallery, New York City and Galerie Perrotin, Paris. Recent featured exhibitions include Pintura contemporánea en México, curated by Amanda de la Garza and Paula Duarte at Amparo Museum, Puebla, Mexico and Sala de Nado (Swimming Room), curated by Martín Craciun at W-galería, Buenos Aires, Argentina.​

In 2023, she was an artist in residence at Delfina Foundation, London, within the FAARA Conecta program in alliance with Fundación Ama Amoedo. Other artistic residencies and research programmes include: Pivô Pesquisa, São Paulo, Brazil (2024); Flora ars+natura, Bogotá, Colombia (2018); Casa Wabi Foundation, Oaxaca, México (2016).​

She is the author of Un golpe de suerte (2023), a drawing book for children published in Mexico by Piedra Ediciones with the support of Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo.​