“In a search constantly in tension linked to concepts such as identity, memory, ruin, failure, history and collapse, my work intends to question the established schemes that condition us. My reflections and processes depart from situations of conflict, sinuous, unstable, and indefinite terrains, with a vulnerability that allows movement in multiple directions. In an effort to fracture structures, to dilute edges, to push things to the limit, to surpass or twist borders, the impulse of my pieces lies in the awareness and analysis of context and memory.

Retrieving fragments with certain historical weight, I attempt to rearticulate, from a different posture, their potential significance through visual elements that seduce the eye. Thus, I use the illusory nature of art as an instrument to alter the habitual course of things, in a perverse recomposition where reality and fiction merge to reveal the inconsistency of history, which is always a distorted image that we construct.” —Cynthia Gutierrez

Cynthia Gutiérrez’s work is articulated from an understanding of sculpture beyond the medium. Her approaches to three-dimensionality— through different supports—arise from a critical strategy that seeks to question and test the vulnerability and stability of that which is structural, whether at a physical, conceptual or political level. Supported by different philosophical references, the query about the future vibrates in a deep layer in Gutiérrez’s work. The relationship between past and present, between the institutional as epitome of power and control structures, as well as the different forms of political representation inhabit her work to set up a dialogue that allows us, if not to resort to answers, to at least act from an awareness of the tensions we face. In this way, the construction of memory, of national identity, the idea of progress or failure, the cyclicality of collapse, the apparatus of legitimization, and its link with art and culture are frequently addressed in her pieces to interrogate and test our ability to discern and negotiate the public, political and social space.