Maria Jerez, (Madrid, 1978). Her work travels “between” choreography, cinema and visual arts. Since 2004, she has made pieces that explore the relationship with the spectator as the space in which the modes of representation are put into crisis. From El Caso del Espectador to her last pieces Blob, Yabba or The Stain this relation has mutated from a place of “understanding” of theatrical and cinematographic conventions, that is, from the expertise, to the intentional loss of references where the artist, the piece and the spectator behave towards each other as strangers.
In the last years her work has focused on opening spaces of potentiality through the encounter with what we find strange, alien; insisting on the performativity of the encounter as a space of transformation. In this process of transformation the “other” is lodged in oneself, establishing diffuse edges between the known and the unknown.
She has produced the performances: The Stain (2019), Yabba (2017-2018 adapted as an installation), Blob (2016), Alma de Rímel & The Glammatics (2015), ba-deedly-deedly-deedly-dum ba-boop-be-doop! (2014), The Perfect Alibi (2011-12), This Side Up (2006) and The Case of the Spectator (2004).
She made the films: The Boogie Woogie Ghost (2018) with Silvia Zayas, Maria Gaat Naar School (2017) with Edurne Rubio and The Movie (2008) with Cris Blanco, Amaia Urra and Cuqui Jerez inside their project “The Neverstarting Story”.
Her work is part of the collection of Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M, Madrid).
Since 2010 she co-organizes: Living Room Festival (Madrid) with Juan Domínguez, Luis Úrculo and Cuqui Jerez. She has co-curated with Magui Dávila, Maria Eguizábal and Gisela Serrano PICNIC SESSIONS 2017, CA2M, Móstoles (Madrid). She teaches at: Master’s Degree in Arts Practice and Visual Culture, UCLM & Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid).
Her work is supported by apap-Performing Europe 2020 - a project co-founded by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
In the last years her work has focused on opening spaces of potentiality through the encounter with what we find strange, alien; insisting on the performativity of the encounter as a space of transformation. In this process of transformation the “other” is lodged in oneself, establishing diffuse edges between the known and the unknown.
She has produced the performances: The Stain (2019), Yabba (2017-2018 adapted as an installation), Blob (2016), Alma de Rímel & The Glammatics (2015), ba-deedly-deedly-deedly-dum ba-boop-be-doop! (2014), The Perfect Alibi (2011-12), This Side Up (2006) and The Case of the Spectator (2004).
She made the films: The Boogie Woogie Ghost (2018) with Silvia Zayas, Maria Gaat Naar School (2017) with Edurne Rubio and The Movie (2008) with Cris Blanco, Amaia Urra and Cuqui Jerez inside their project “The Neverstarting Story”.
Her work is part of the collection of Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M, Madrid).
Since 2010 she co-organizes: Living Room Festival (Madrid) with Juan Domínguez, Luis Úrculo and Cuqui Jerez. She has co-curated with Magui Dávila, Maria Eguizábal and Gisela Serrano PICNIC SESSIONS 2017, CA2M, Móstoles (Madrid). She teaches at: Master’s Degree in Arts Practice and Visual Culture, UCLM & Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid).
Her work is supported by apap-Performing Europe 2020 - a project co-founded by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
