CONTINGENT conversation : ROSSELLA MATAMOROS
CONTINGENT conversation : ROSSELLA MATAMOROS
Art as a “social practice” arbitrating between trauma and recovery.
A multidisciplinary artist with 30 years of experience, he integrates performance and workshop design in his construction of work with a personal sense of restorative urgency.
Rossella Matamoros
Bachelor’s degree in Painting, UCR 1983. French Government Scholarship, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1988-89. Master of Fine Arts, George Washington University, USA, 1992, Fellow Fulbright, EE.UU. Japan Foundation Scholarship, Kyoto Seika U. 1999-2000. Aquileo J. Echeverría National Award 1998 and 2003. Participant in the Venice biennials 2003 (installation) and 2017 (performances).
Francisco Amighetti National Award 2020. He has exhibited in more than 135 exhibitions over the last 30 years individually and collectively in Costa Rica, the United States, Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland, Taiwan, Japan, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Honduras, Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala and Peru. Presentations: Mexico, Peru, Costa Rica, Colombia, Washington DC, Japan and New York. Biennials: Venice, Italy San Juan, Puerto Rico Tijuana, Mexico Chapingo, Mexico Bienarte, Costa Rica Marte, Salvador Idearte, Honduras. Work: in drawing, sculpture, painting, installation, performance, video and costume dramaturgy and lighting design. Lines of research: human development, trauma and recovery, civic education and performing arts.
Latest exhibitions 2017 Translucid Seeds. Sobre la mujer indígena costarricense de ayer y de hoy. Exhibition and performances. National Museum of Costa Rica. 130th anniversary of the Museum. Participation in the Venice Biennale # 57, in group performances. In the Arsenale and the Giardini 2018 On the Edge: Immigrants. National Gallery, Children’s Museum, Costa Rica. 2019 Have you heard? Have you felt it? Exhibition and performances. On adolescent mothers at high social risk. Museo Rafael A. Calderón Guardia, Project declared of “Cultural Interest” in Costa Rica, by the Ministry of Culture and Youth. 2019 Performance colectiva: Silver Spiders, Grace Exhibition Space, New York. 2020 Colectivo: THIS WAY, en el Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo.
My work in the exhibition and performances is entitled, How do we look in the mirror? Are we defending institutionalism? Francisco Amighetti National Award 2020. 2021 Matamoros won an Artistic Residency on climate change, in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy (MINAE and DCC), International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS). Video art “THE EMBRACE” that will be exhibited next April/June, at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MADC) in San José. October 2021 to January 2022. Individual exhibition MESTIZO TERRITORIES, La Neomudéjar Museum, Madrid, Spain. October 2022- January 2022 group show “El Corazón aulla / Heart Hauls” Gallery 8th Floor New York
Absence / Creativity
Current exhibition of Rossella Matamoros and Workshop Youth at the Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia Museum, San José Costa Rica.
By clicking on the button you will find images and video clips of their performances, the installation and the process and works generated by young people in the workshops that make up the project and the work as a social practice arbitrating between Trauma and Recovery, personal and group construction of the emotional experience of HOPE, the LOVE of Life in one’s own, in relation to alliances for the transfer of testimonies as social truths and shared knowledge in spaces of respect, empathy, containment and awareness.
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book presentation by Ruth Vigueras Bravo
CONTINGENT conversation: MAYA RIVERA and GUSTAVO ÁLVAREZ, Performance o die, MEXICO
Maya Rivera y Gustavo Álvarez