Daniela Libertad (EN)
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) 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. 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. 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
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2026
Hay poder en lo pequeño, NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ, Madrid
2023
Il y a de la force dans la légèreté. VARIATION. Galerie Sator + NF/ NIEVES FERNANDEZ. Paris
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
Press and texts
2021 – Cuadernillo de dibujo Vol. 1. Artists text compilated by Dulce Chacón
2021 – Meditations in Emergency. Letters compilated by Violeta Celis
2021 – El País. Babelia. Sé lo que hicisteis el fin de semana – Bea Espejo
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