Alejandra González Soca

Alejandra González Soca
Born (1973-01-16) 16 January 1973
Maldonado, Uruguay
Alma mater University of the Republic
Website www.alejandragonzalezsoca.com

Alejandra González Soca (born 16 January 1973) is an Uruguayan visual artist, psychologist, and teacher.

Biography

Alejandra González Soca lives in Montevideo. She graduated from the University of the Republic with a degree in Visual Arts, and holds a Psychology degree from the Catholic University of Uruguay. She attended the workshops of artists Anhelo Hernández and Carlos Capelán. She has participated in projects and individual and collective art exhibitions nationally and abroad.

Since 1999 she has held the Casa B studio workshop where she develops her artistic and teaching practice.[1]

The work of Alejandra González Soca has been described as "the result of a tension between the unique and unrepeatable ephemeral gesture and the apparent dispersion of the multiplied object, materialized in a polyphonic integration of elements and registers."[2] It is built from the confluence of the fragile and delicate with a certain dirty and germinal air probing a representation of an altered and intimate memory. It uses blurry images, overlapping layers and a formal sensuality where the viewer can have an immersive experience. This is a strategy to show cracks and breaks in the readings on topics such as violence, aggression, and frustration generated by the forms of agreed-upon silencing.[3]

Selected individual exhibitions

  • 2005, Impresiones, Florencio Sánchez Cultural Center, Montevideo, Uruguay
  • 2008, quieroquemeveas, Palace of Culture, Maldonado, Uruguay
  • 2010, Marco íntimo, Galería Cinemateca, Montevideo, Uruguay
  • 2013, El Sitio, curator Jorge F. Soto. Kavlin Centro Cultural, Punta del Este, Uruguay
  • 2014, Hilo Partido, curator Jorge F. Soto. Capilla Soca, Canelones, Uruguay
  • 2015, El Legado (In) visible – devenires de hypomnema, Museo Histórico Cabildo, Montevideo, Uruguay
  • 2015, Íntima, curator Clio E. Bugel, Quinta Capurro, Santa Lucía; Kavlin Centro Cultural, Punta del Este; Centro Cultural Simón Bolívar, Montevideo, Uruguay
  • 2016, "Fragmentos de um pequeno mundo", Roman ruins of S. Cucufate, Vila de Frades, Vidigueira, Portugal

Collaborative projects

  • 2011, Ficciones Artiguistas, installation, curator Alfredo Torres (with Aldo Baroffio)[4] Spaces: Cultural Center of the Republic, Asunción, Paraguay, Espacio de Arte, University of Lanús, Buenos Aires, Argentina, National Museum of Visual Arts, Montevideo, Uruguay
  • 2014, Transitables, multimedia performance, 9th Sculpture Encounter in Palmar, Mercedes, Uruguay (with artist and photographer Manuel Gianoni)
  • 2014–2016, Juego de Muñecas, multimedia installation in collaboration with Teresa Puppo, Ana Aristimuño, Elián Stolarsky, and Jacqueline Lacasa. Hanover/Berlin, Germany, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Uruguay
  • 2016, Tramas Comunicantes: anudando memorias, textile intervention project, Memoria Futura – Barrio de las Artes (with artist Adriana Rostosvky), Montevideo, Uruguay
  • 2016, Habré sido / No-espacio, exhibition of two artists, Espacio de Arte INNOVA, Punta del Este, Uruguay

Selected collective exhibitions

  • 2009, Deseo Celeste, Colectivo UY, Casa Memorial Salvador Allende, Havana, Cuba
  • 2009, quieroquemeveas, Musea: cultura femenina itinerante
  • 2011, Aerícolas, Bienal World Textil Art (WTA), Museo Casa del Risco, Mexico (curator Alfredo Torres)
  • 2012, Afuera, seleccionada V Festival INCUBARTE, video art category, Valencia, Spain
  • 2012, El Vestido, 55° Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales, National Museum of Visual Arts, Montevideo
  • 2012, Germinal, seleccionada IX Bienal de Salto, APLAS, Salto, Uruguay
  • 2012, In between planes. Project Globalization-Connections-Time, Kunsthalle Faust, Hanover, Germany (curated by Yasemin Yilmaz and Harro Schmidt)
  • 2012, Jardín de Ofelias, Arte in Situ. Islote Curupí, Paraná, Argentina (curator Teresa Pereda)
  • 2013, Mecánica Ilusoria, Mujeres con Fibra, Atrio Municipal, Montevideo, Uruguay (curator Alicia Haber)
  • 2013, Phylum Hybris, Trama Territorio, Lussich Arboretum, Maldonado, Uruguay
  • 2014, Terruño, XI Art Fair Valoarte, Costa Rica
  • 2014, Viridis, 56° Salón Nacional, National Museum of Visual Arts, Montevideo, Uruguay
  • 2015, Imperishable legacy, Between heaven and earth. Geumgang Nature Art Center, Korea
  • 2015, Si las paredes hablaran, Actos públicos – Actos privados, 30 artists, Punto de Encuentro MEC (curator Jacqueline Lacasa)
  • 2015, Topografía Alterada II, Convivencias. Centro de Exposiciones Subte, Uruguay (curator Rulfo, director of Centro de Exposiciones Subte)
  • 2016, Natalia Natalia, Espectros del deseo, Centro de Exposiciones Subte, Uruguay
  • 2017, Deriva de una Topografía Alterada / TRANSITO, featured artist, 7th Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art, National Museum of Visual Arts

Distinctions

  • 2004, Selected for the Ibero-American Encyclopedia of Contemporary Artists, Queensborough Community College, City University of New York
  • 2010, Fondo Concursable Award for Culture, Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC), visual arts, Uruguay
  • 2010, Fondos ProCultura Maldonado Award, visual arts, Uruguay
  • 2011, Winner of the INMEDITERRANEUM international festival of video arts
  • 2011, Patrocinio Award, Uruguay Bicentennial Commission
  • 2012, First prize of the International Urban Art Encounter, Casablanca, Paysandú, Uruguay
  • 2012, Official Selection of the erd SCDF Festival, Rojas Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 2012, Selected for the 55th Wifredo Díaz Valdéz National Visual Arts Award[5]
  • 2013, Fondos ProCultura Maldonado Award, Uruguay
  • 2014, Justino Zavala Muniz creative grant, MEC, Uruguay
  • 2014, Fondo Concursable Award for Culture (MEC), visual arts, Uruguay
  • 2014, Selected for the 56th José Gamarra National Visual Arts Award[6]
  • 2017, Uruguay-Argentina Artistic Residencies Exchange Program, MEC, Uruguay
  • 2017, Selected for the 48th Montevideo Visual Arts Awards, Centro de Exposiciones SUBTE, Montevideo
  • 2017, Selected for the 2nd International Biennial of Asunción, Paraguay

Residencies

  • 2013, Artist invited to be part of the Trabajar Conversando project by artist Carlos Capelán, Union Foundation, Montevideo
  • 2013, Artist in residence, BomeRoom, City of the Arts, Córdoba, Argentina
  • 2016, Artist in residence, Atelier Christine Ferrer, Goult, Luberon, France
  • 2016, Artist in residence, Archaeology, Arts, and Sciences Heritage Studies Center, University of Coimbra, Portugal
  • 2017, Resident curator, Santa Fé, Argentina

References

  1. ↑ Echeverría, Ximena. "Alejandra González Soca". Multitasker (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  2. ↑ Panella, Verónica (December 2016). Alejandra González Soca. Panorama del Arte Contemporáneo en Uruguay (in Spanish). Centro de Exposiciones Subte. p. 194. ISBN 9789974716315. Retrieved 29 November 2017 – via issuu.
  3. ↑ Boglione, Riccardo (7 December 2015). "La mujer visible" [The Visible Woman]. La Diaria (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "Ficciones Artiguistas" (in Spanish). National Museum of Visual Arts. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  5. ↑ Alejandra González Soca (PDF). 55° Salón Nacional 'Wifredo Díaz Valdéz' (in Spanish). MEC. 2012. p. 118. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  6. ↑ Alejandra González Soca (PDF). 56 Salón Nacional 'José Gamarra' (in Spanish). MEC. 2014. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
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