Olxjalotl /// Melina Peña solo show

/// EXHIBITION: OLXJALOTL /// ARTIST: Melina Peña (MEX) /// PROGRAM: 07.09. — 18h Klabika Residency 2K18 with Reverbegovic; 20h Exhibition opening / Performance OLXJALOTL. 09.09. — 17h Brodac Art Talk with Melina Peña (powered by Illy), moderated by Mak Hubjer. OLXJALOTL — MC/Live performance where the body functions as a sensory platform and the allusion of shamanism as a way of connecting with the forces of nature, dwelling on new social imaginaries and questioning our roles for a present and future sustainable life. The figure of the futuristic shaman acts as an intermediary between the human and non-human world, exposing the grotesque and challenging what is considered beautiful and normal in our society. We may think that the body is in constant metamorphosis when in contact with other individuals, objects, environment and experiences. My question is whether you can strip the body from cultural stigmas and bring it to an individualization going beyond identity — a kind of exfoliation that involves moving the skin layers as a process of renewal and transition. Faith, illusionism, fiction as a tool for survival! — Melina Peña BIO — Action/interdisciplinary artist from Tijuana, Mexico, raised on both sides of the Mexico–USA border, currently based in Barcelona, Spain. Melina Peña has been in an extensive search of her own body language, training in Butoh, Experimental Dance, Body Landscape and Performance Art. She holds a Master's degree from the Independent Studies Program (PEI) of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona (MACBA), and post-graduate studies on Sensory Language and The Poetics of Play, directed by El Teatro de los Sentidos / University of Girona. She double-majored in Linguistics and World Arts & Cultures at UCLA. In the past 15 years she has shown her work at the Cerveira Biennale, PAN Palazzo Naples, Venice Biennale, Galerie Taïss and La Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, with residencies and workshops in Germany, Mexico, Portugal, Estonia, Macedonia, England and Spain. melinapena.com