Margarita Figueroa, interdisciplinary artist. After starting philosophy at the University I realized that I could talk about the same topics that I studied but now through art so throughout my work I have worked on topics such as machismo, sex (which is a taboo in my previous generation), but also more personal themes such as nostalgia when living and then leaving a home, or when saying goodbye to someone dear. I have used traditional techniques such as painting, engraving and drawing, to GIF, text (which is very present in my work as a resource and as an image), installation and performance, but lately I have combined video as media (in terms of visual ) and the repetition of words (in terms of sound).
I have participated in more than 15 group exhibitions and one individual. In 2020 I collaborated with the digital magazine “Agencia Ocote” for the “Disappeared (women)” segment of Estación del Silencio with illustrations about the structural machismo that prevails in the Central American region.
In July 2021, in a residency at the Centro Cultural de España en Guatemala, I composed 12 sound pieces with voice and piano in which I tell what it is like to walk in the city and in a small town like Panajachel, where I currently live. In 2022 I made the short film “La Casita Azul” (thanks to the Cinematographic Creation Laboratory by and for women) which has been screened in Mexico, Brazil and Guatemala.
