Paloma Ayala

Dec 6

Written By PlatteForum

Monument, Paloma Ayala and PlatteForum’s ArtLab Interns, 2020Image by Wes Magyar — *Monument*, Paloma Ayala and PlatteForum’s ArtLab Interns, 2020
Image by Wes Magyar

Paloma Ayala, originally from Mexico, currently based in Zürich, Switzerland | multimedia

Residency period: Jan. 13 - March 5th 2020

Exhibition Title: USE THE SPACE, USE IT YOU MUST

Opening reception: Thursday March 5th, 6 - 8pm

Conversation: Use the Space, Use it You Must
Tuesday Feb. 25th 6pm-8pm at Oz Architecture

Paloma Ayala's art topics of feminism and gender through social practice and community happenings. Her residency with PlatteForum’s ArtLab high school interns investigates how spaces and bodies are intimately tied together, not only in our desire for spaces to be inhabitable, but in how the spaces also inhabit us. Monument is an installation and social space rethinking the form of the anti-monument, featuring female voices that reproduce a history that wants to de-patriarchize.

About the Artist

Paloma Ayala, (1980, Matamoros, Mexico) is multimedia artist with a social based practice focused on investigating gendered spaces, structures and processes within our society that affect lives, at home or in our different communities. holds a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the University of Monterrey, Mexico (2002) and a Professional Teaching Degree at Arte A.C. also in Mexico (2003). From 2005 to 2010 she worked as a Community Assistant in Rochester, NY (USA). Paloma has lived in Switzerland since 2010, where she pursues her interests in social-based artistic practices. She has graduated from the Master in Fine Arts degree from the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in September 2017.