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Daniela Libertad
Mexico, 1983

The works by Daniela Libertad in drawing, photography and video, explore the several relations among geometric forms, objects and her own body, the perceptions on what is intangible, mystical and their connections with everyday life.

The artist investigates also on how sculptural dynamics are constructed and deposited into objects, in an effort to understand the relations of weight, tension and balance among materials, shapes and objects.

Her body of work pushes into tension the perceptions of what is both intangible and habitual. By using different media, the artist allows her work to confront immaterial elements and geometrical forms with common objects and her own body, exploring both the mystical and ethereal features of these components, and concrete aspects such as weight, density and touch. In these tension exercises, the artist unsettles the mixture between apparently opposite fields, between physical and mental or abstract and figurative, towards a stage of precarious balance between parts that, ultimately, inform us on a fragile and banal condition of our apprehension of day-to-day poetry.

She has exhibited at institutions such as Museo Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Akershus Kunstsenter, Kunstverein Wiesbaden, El Espacio23, Museum of Human Achievement, University of Maryland, VITA ROSEN, and Cine Tonalá Bogotá, among others.

Her work is part of the collections of Jorge Pérez, Fundación MARSO, and Fundación Otazu.

Daniela Libertad
Forma, fondo (fieltro) 4
2024
Felt, colored pencil on paper
21 x 29 cm each (Triptych)

Daniela Libertad
Forma, fondo (fieltro) 7
2024
Felt, colored pencil on paper
21 x 29 cm each (Triptych)

Daniela Libertad
Forma, fondo (fieltro) 8
2024
Felt, colored pencil on paper
21 x 29 cm each (Triptych)

NO PLACE tour 2024. Colombia. Nueveochenta. 2024

Daniela Libertad
Dibujo tejido 23
2024
Crayon on paper
122 x 75 cm

Daniela Libertad
Dibujo tejido 24
2024
Crayon on paper
122 x 75 cm

Daniela Libertad. Entre el encima y el debajo. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ. 2021

Daniela Libertad
Dibujo teijdo 8
2021
Crayon on paper
351 x 106 cm

Daniela Libertad
Dibujo tejido 6
2021
Crayon on paper
346 x 110 cm

Daniela Libertad. A grain in the eye of the mountain. Fundación Marso. 2019

Daniela Libertad
Cielo 2
2023
Crayon on paper
600 x 150 cm

Daniela Libertad
Paisaje 41
2021
Crayon on paper
122 x 75 cm

Daniela Libertad
Paisaje 30
2020
Crayon on paper
122 x 73,5 cm

Daniela Libertad
Paisaje 31
2020
Crayon on paper
122 x 73,5 cm

Daniela Libertad
Paisaje 16
2018
Crayon on paper
122 x 70 cm

Daniela Libertad
Paisaje 37
2021
Crayon on paper
122 x 75 cm

Daniela Libertad
Paisaje 29
2020
Crayon on paper
122 x 73,5 cm

Daniela Libertad
Paisaje 36
2021
Crayon on paper
122 x 75 cm

Daniela Libertad
Paisaje 32
2020
Crayon on paper
122 x 73,5 cm

Daniela Libertad
Paisaje 39
2021
Crayon on paper
122 x 75 cm

Daniela Libertad
Paisaje 35
2021
Crayon on paper
122 x 75 cm

Daniela Libertad
Un nuevo color
2020
Video.
2’20»

Daniela Libertad
Del poder de las palabras (cantemos, contemos)
2019
Graphite on paper
28 x 17,8 cm each

Daniela Libertad
Del poder de las palabras (el fondo, lo hondo)
2019
Graphite on paper
28 x 17,8 cm each

Daniela Libertad
Formas y color 34
2018
Crayon on paper
128 x 75 cm

Daniela Libertad
Formas y color 35
2018
Crayon on paper
128 x 75 cm

Daniela Libertad
Formas y color 32
2017
Crayon on paper
130 x 91,5 cm

Daniela Libertad
Desborde 1
2021
Sheet of paper
200 x 21,4 cm

Daniela Libertad
Pera
2023
Digital print
60 x 100 cm

Daniela Libertad
Papel metal
2022
Metal chain and paper
302 x 2 x 2 cm

Daniela Libertad
Borde
2023
Sheet of paper, thread
29,7 x 21 cm

Daniela Libertad
Diagrama 68
2020
Graphite and coloured pencil on paper
29,7 x 21 cm

Daniela Libertad
Estudio sobre triángulo (distensión-tensión)
2017
Pencil on paper
35,5 x 27,9 cm each

NO PLACE tour 2024. Colombia. Nueveochenta. 2024

Daniela Libertad
Estudio sobre triángulo (desdoble)
2017
Pencil on paper
35,5 x 27,9 cm each

Daniela Libertad
Reforma
2017
Pencil on paper
35,5 x 27,9 cm each

Daniela Libertad
Inversión
2019
Color pencil on paper
35,5 x 27,9 cm c/u

Daniela Libertad
Vaso Vapor
2015
Digital print
100 x 60 cm

Daniela Libertad
Ensayo sobre circunferencia 16
2017
Digital print
68 x 100 cm

Daniela Libertad
Ensayo sobre circunferencia 15
2017
Nylon thread on cable
310 x 60 x 0,6 cm

Daniela Libertad
Palma, sal
2013
Digital print
100 x 60 cm

Daniela Libertad
Cuchillo 1
2023
Digital print
100 x 69 cm

Daniela Libertad
Polvo (20 de abril 2018)
2018
Digital print
68 x 100 cm

Daniela Libertad
Polvo (21 de febrero 2018)
2018
Digital print
68 x 100 cm

Daniela Libertad
Diagrama 13
2011
Graphite on paper
16 x 21,5 cm

Daniela Libertad
Diagrama 14
2011
Graphite on paper
16 x 21,5 cm

Daniela Libertad
Diagrama 16
2011
Graphite on paper
16 x 21,5 cm

Daniela Libertad

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022

I Return to Simple Actions, Art Gallery, University of Maryland, USA

2021

Between the Above and the Below, NF/ NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ, Madrid

2020

What Rests Also Resists, «1 Month 1 Artist», curated by Violeta Celis, Galería 123, Mexico City

2019

This Thread Will Take the Shape of All It Devours, curated by Paola Jasso, Casa Wabi Santa María la Ribera, Mexico City

2017

L for Line, JosédelaFuente Gallery, Santander
In Xochitl In Cuicatl, curated by Miguel Jara, Cine Tonalá, Mexico City
In Xochitl In Cuicatl, curated by Miguel Jara, Atopia, Oslo

2016

Study on Triangle, curated by Leslie Moody Castro, Museum of Human Achievement, Austin
Video Screening, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, curated by Eduardo S. Mayorga, Germany

2015

I Push Doors I Should Pull, I Pull Doors I Should Push, curated by Sofía Mariscal and Paty Siller, MARSO Gallery, Mexico City
Muestra Arte Actual 2015, curated by Sofía Carrillo Herrerías and Pedro Ortiz, Museo Arte Actual Ex-Teresa, Mexico City

2014

Transferred Study, curated by Sofía Mariscal, Cine Tonalá, Bogotá
Around, Within, curated by Violeta Celis, Casa Vecina, Mexico City
A Body of Light, a Speck of Dust, MARSO Gallery, Mexico City
The Full Empties Itself, the Empty Fills Itself, POLY Produzentengalerie, Karlsruhe, Germany

2013

EMAF – European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany

2011

Fokus Mexiko, curated by Eduardo Mayorga, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, Germany

2010

KEAF – Korea Experimental Arts Festival, Seoul Art Space_Seogyo & Theater Zero, Seoul, South Korea

2008

Young Pretenders, curated by Josh Atlas, Kate Werble Gallery, New York
Ferenbalm-Gurbrü Station, Karlsruhe
Alpineum Produzentengalerie, Lucerne
Zenshi Gallery, Tokyo
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin

2007

17th International Video Festival Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020

Women in the Visual Arts Biennial (BMAV), Casa Conchita, Madrid

2019

map-soil-landscape, NF/ NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ, Madrid
Fabiola Menchelli and Daniela Libertad, curated by Leslie Moody Castro, Fundación MARSO, Mexico City
Approaching Abstraction, curated by Alberto Ríos de la Rosa and Bosco Sodi, Blain|Southern, London
You of Me / I of You, curated by Fernanda Barreto, María Cerdá Acebrón, Manuela García and Carla Rippey, Museum of Mexico City

2017

Body / Action / Object: Contemporary Art Practices in Mexico City 1994–2016 Vol. I, with Luis Felipe Ortega, curated by Sofía Mariscal, Akershus Kunstsenter, Oslo

2015

Muestra Arte Actual 2015, Museo Arte Actual Ex-Teresa, Mexico City

2014

On What There Might Not Be, curated by Sofía Mariscal & Polina Stroganova, MARSO Gallery, Mexico City

2013

Beginning to See the Light, curated by Oscar Ramos, VITA ROSEN, Gothenburg

2011

Lost in Translation, curated by Nadja Verena Marcin, Jens Fehring Gallery, Frankfurt

Grants and Awards

2013–2014

Young Creators Program (Alternative Media category), FONCA – tutored by Tania Candiani and Sebastián Romo

2011–2012

Young Creators Program (Video category), FONCA – tutored by Bruno Varela

2008–2010

FONCA Scholarship Program for Studies Abroad

2006–2007

Baden-Württemberg Stipendium, awarded by the Government of Baden-Württemberg, for a semester at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, Germany

Residencies

2017

Casa Nano, August–September, Tokyo

2016

Museum of Human Achievement (MoHA), April, Austin

2014

Casa Wabi, November–December, Oaxaca

Collections

Pérez Art Museum, Miami
Fundación Otazu, Navarra
Fundación MARSO, Mexico City

other works

Daniela Libertad
Dibujo tejido 4
2021
Crayon on paper
458 x 99 cm

Daniela Libertad
Dibujo tejido 5
2021
Crayon on paper
449 x 110 cm

Daniela Libertad
Dibujo tejido 9
2021
Crayon on paper
124 x 99 cm

Daniela Libertad
Dibujo tejido 10
2021
Crayon on paper
123 x 80 cm

Daniela Libertad
Dibujo tejido 11
2021
Crayon on paper
129 x 76 cm

Daniela Libertad
Dibujo tejido 7
2021
Crayon on paper
366 x 102 cm

Daniela Libertad
Dibujo tejido 20
2023
Crayon on paper
122 x 75 cm

Daniela Libertad
Paisaje 28
2021
Crayon on paper
122 x 75 cm

Daniela Libertad
Paisaje 27
2020
Crayon on paper
122 x 75 cm

Daniela Libertad
Paisaje 40
2021
Crayon on paper
122 x 75 cm

Press and texts

2021 – Cuadernillo de dibujo Vol. 1. Artists text compilated by Dulce Chacón

2021 – El País. Babelia. Sé lo que hicisteis el fin de semana – Bea Espejo

2021 – Meditations in Emergency. Letters compilated by Violeta Celis

2020 – Galería Artículo 123 – Lo que reposa también resiste – By Violeta Celis

2020 – El dibujo actual en México. By Janitzio Alatriste Tobilla (…)

2020 – Visita de estudio. By Elena Piedra

2016 – Estudio sobre triángulo. By Leslie Moody Castro

2016 – Daniela Libertad – Estudio sobre triángulo

2016 – Daily Serving – Daniela Libertad. (…) – By Tania Puente

2015 – LeCool México. Daniela Libertad. By Eduardo Ostria

2015 – Marso. ¿Qué sé de la Libertad? – By Jorge Ornelas

2014 – NEUE kunstwissenschaft – Nada se perderá, no temas hermana – By Daniela Libertad

2013 – La Tempestad – Cuerpo de luz y de polvo. Conversation with Daniel Montero (…)

2013 – FRENTE – Lo único propio seguirá siendo nuestro silencio. By Marisol Rodríguez

2013 – Galería MARSO – Inasible, posible, imposible: algo cae/ algo se levanta. Luis Felipe Ortega

2011 – Polyforum Siqueiros – 1,2 Volumen. Daniela Libertad

2009 – CASA VECINA. Poste / Bolsa. By Susana Santoyo

2008 – Revista Código – Tensiones-distensiones. Luis Felipe Ortega