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MeetFactory, o. p. s.
Ke Sklárně 3213/15
150 00 Praha 5

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14.408441

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Plinio Villagrán Galindo

I was born in Guatemala City in 1979. I studied Architecture and Arts at the
University of San Carlos of Guatemala in Guatemala City. I obtained a scholarship  for etching in the School of Fine Arts in Paris in 2003 and in 2006 another scholarship in the School of Sculpturing and Etching “La Esmeralda” in Mexico City. I was also scholarship holder in the program of artistic residencies for Latin American art producers in Mexico through the National Grant for Culture and Arts (FONCA) in 2009 and was artist in residence in the studio of contemporary graphic (TAGA) in Oaxaca, Mexico in the same year. I also benefitted from the program of incitement for artistic production and development in Oaxaca PECDA, a category of young art producers, SECULTA- CONACULTA, 2013-2014, and from the project of Sala de Arte Joven in the Museum of Oaxacan Painters, MUPO July—August 2013. Also, I received a certified of art criticism through Aesthetic Research Institute UNAM México.

I address the concept of body from different parameters of reflection but mainly from its inscription as “geography” and from the symptom of violence understood as a certainty (historic, social and political) that exists based on the dichotomy myth-reason and therefore it always was preliminary. The schools of this certainty transform themselves in possibilities to study its existence as a sign, footprint or remains for a critical re-lecture.

Based on diverse approaches like graphics, painting, video and installation I recreate hypothetical remains through visual references and sources of the internet or documents coming from books about medical or forensic practice. At the same time graphic plays an important role as a generative source of “writings” or dates that refer constantly to classification or register.

My most important influences come from artists as Marlene Dumas, Kiki Smith, Francis Alÿs and The Atlas Group. Like them, I am searching for continuity in the constant process while using the possibilities of the “error” in order to obtain a classification of the findings and studios like a forensic or anthropological laboratory.