Join Ana Bidart first for an artist-led tour through her exhibition and molding foam workshop.
| Date: | Saturday, 5 April 2025 |
| Time: | 14:00–16:00 |
| Location: | Delfina Foundation |
| Tickets: | Free. Booking essential. |
| Access information: | Please refer to this page |
Imagine you could pick a sentence from your favorite book and stretch it with your hands like a bubble gum. Then by squeezing it, imagine you could build a completely new form to it.
What things are still readable even when text is gone?
Playing at turning the metaphor of ‘how flexible languages could be’ into something tangible, this peculiar modelling workshop is intended to explore language possibilities and impossibilities through touch and materiality. An invitation to rethink and reshape language in fantastical, whimsical, quirky, unexpected forms.
Join Ana Bidart first for an artist-led tour through her exhibition Long before the walls, in which she will share process insights and questions around her research. After that, guided by some playful instructions and casual group conversation, participants will be encourage to mold -in small groups or individually-, a new invented alphabet with their own hands using molding foam (or air-drying clay).
At the end of the session we will make a collective composition with all the resulting alphabets. Participants are welcome to take their creations with them at the end of the workshop.
All materials will be provided. Refreshments will also be available.
No previous modeling experience is required. Kids with an adult companion are very welcome.
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.