EXHIBITION FROM MARCH 21 TO MAY 22, 2025

Marcela Armas

Holobiont Mirrors

Following an artist residency at Adélard in Frelighsburg in the summer of 2024, the Mexican Cultural Institute in Montreal / Espacio Mexico presents, as part of the Underground Art Festival, an exhibition by Marcela Armas entitled Mirrors of the Holobiont . The artist presents maps that interpret the personal histories of some of Frelighsburg's residents. Each map evokes the individual's relationship with the land, their biography, their emotions, and the space they inhabit.

Mirrors of the Holobiont aims to establish a complementary link between iridology and soil chromatography, two analytical methodologies that support health diagnostic processes through the observation of the human iris and terrestrial soils.

Biography

Marcela Armas is an artist who lives and works in San Miguel de Allende. Her work focuses on the relationship between technologies and community processes, questioning the relationships that society establishes with matter, energy, space, time, and the construction of history.

She studied at the School of Visual Arts at the University of Guanajuato and the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. She received support from the FONCA Young Creators Program, the Arte-Actuel Bancomer-MACG 2009 Program, and the CENART Multimedia Center's New Media Research Support Program. She received the ARCO/BEEP Award for Electronic Art at the 2012 Arco Madrid Art Fair. She participated in the eleventh Havana Biennial. She received the Production Incentive Award for VIDA 16.0 from the Telefónica Foundation of Spain. She was a member of the National System of Art Creators of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts from 2016 to 2019. Her work has been exhibited in Mexico, the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, Russia, China, and India.