Himali Singh Soin

Soledad Gutiérrez
 

December 14, 2022, 5:30 pm
January 18, 2023, 5:30 pm
 

Exhibition hall lobby, level -1. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
 

Spanish
 

Beatriz Ortega Botas (Oviedo, 1990) is a curator and teacher. Together with Leticia Ybarra, she curates and edits the poetry project Juf. Since 2017, she has co-directed the curatorial platform and independent space Yaby, and she is the co-editor of the online magazine AH. As a curator, she has worked with institutions like Vleeshal (Middelburg, Netherlands), Fundació Miró (Barcelona), ARCO, Sala de Arte Joven de la Comunidad de Madrid, La Casa Encendida (Madrid) and Hangar (Barcelona).

Leticia Ybarra (Madrid, 1991) is a poet who pursues her practice both in writing and in the visual arts and curatorship. She and Beatriz Ortega Botas are the co-founders of the Juf project (2021-the present). She is the author of the book of poems Fantasmita eres pegamento (Caniche Editorial, 2021), and has presented her poems and visual work at Luis Adelantado (Valencia), La Casa Encendida (Madrid) CentroCentro (Fundación Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Madrid), Haus Wien (Vienna), Fluent (Santander) and Intersticio (London). She has been in residence at Gasworks (London, 2022) and Tabakalera (Donostia, 2022), and will shortly take up residence at Matadero Madrid (2023). 

Ce Quimera. Artist and researcher born in Argentina and living in Europe since 2000. She studied Social Anthropology in Buenos Aires and at the same time did an internship in performing arts. In 2008 she created, together with Kina Madno, the Quimera Rosa laboratory. From there, she focuses her body work and research on post-identity gender policies and on experimentation on the body, identities and technosciences from a trans*feminist perspective. Her work is currently focused on the development of performances, transdisciplinary projects and interactive installations, scientific research and biohacking experiments. In 2016, the Trans*Plant project began with Quimera Rosa. In 2019, she participated in Here I am the one who left: Sudaka stories in Fortress Europe, a first compilation of stories made by and for migrants from Abya Yala and the Caribbean in Europe. She is a resident artist at the Hangar wetlab, where she carries out projects and consults on research and experimentation in art and science from a transhackfeminist and decolonial perspective.

Gaia Leandra (Naples, 1990) is a scientific art researcher. She has a degree in biology and worked at the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems (IMM) of the Italian National Research Council CNR. Later, she began to collaborate artistically with Paula Pin within the Fotosintetika project. She has participated in the Maker Faire (Rome). She exhibited a sound piece at the Flussi media arts festival in Avellino. She also collaborates with the collective Riot Studio conducting DIY biology workshops within "Hormons", a project of Mary Magicc. Together with the artist Oskar Martin they offer workshops on biology, sound and electronics. She is part of the Italian collective Merda Elettronica and teaches DIY synthesizer workshops with the artist Corazón de Robota. She is the curator of independent music festivals such as FTS, Multiversal, Ràdio Black Out and TPA I 76A Napolitan squatt. She is a resident artist at the Hangar wetlab since 2020 in Barcelona.