All the others in me (New York)

All the others in me (New York)
Gicleé print on cotton rag
27.5" x 39.37"
Ed 4/5 +1AP
2013.
ALL THE OTHERS IN ME
Marrakech Biennale
MOAD Miami
MAMBO Bogota.

The body, in opposition to this language system and ironically living it, speaks through organs, plays with images, sounds, smells, textures, mixtures, everything reacts, absorbs, and transpires ...

For the 4th Marrakech Biennale, Arjona creates a very particular piece in her body of work as it is the first to directly allude to gender policies. Simulating a striptease in which she takes off clothes but does not undress, the artist examines the connotation of "femininity" and the wishes and desires of the public. The revival of the piece shows an androgynous body that fuses the genres and proposes a fluid body territory.
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María José Arjona (b.1973 Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia) lives and works in her native Bogota.

Maria José Arjona is a performance artist focused on affirming the body through long durational exercises addressing process, time, memory, and power. Her performances have been exhibited in museums and galleries in South America, Europe, China, and the United States and have been reviewed by Art Nexus, Arte Al Dia, The New York Times, The Guardian (UK), Whitewall Magazine, The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, and many others. She participated as a re-performer at Marina Abramovic’s retrospective at The Museum Of Modern Art in New York and started touring with her own work at The Madre Museum in Naples (Italy) as part of the program “Corpus, Arte In Azione”. The itineration of this project includes locations in Bologna (Italy), Bergen and Oslo (Norway), New York (US), Vienna (Austria), and will end in 2010 in Colombia as part of the National Salon sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia.

Arjona had a solo exhibition in 2018 at the Museum of Modern Art in Bogota.