| About the author
Guillermina Ortega
was born in Poza Rica, Veracruz, Mexico in 1960 and
studied at the National School of Sculpture, Painting
and Printmedia La Esmeralda, the National Institute
of Fine Arts in Mexico City. She collaborated and worked
as a investigator and cultural promoter in the Cultural
Institute of Veracruz. Her installations are about the
native culture from Veracruz, starting from researches
she have done alongside of Veracruz territory, she have
performed visual works as object-art, draws, installations,
ceramics and painting, giving to each work her interpretation
of these ethnics features. Her work have been show in
Mexico city, the state of Veracruz at the Festival Cumbre
tajin and Veracruz’s House of Madrid, Spain.
Awards and salons:
1988-1990
VIII and X National Encounter of Young Art, INBA, Mexico
City.
1993
Biennial of Paintig Jaoquin Clausell. University of
Campeche, Mexico.
1994
Encouragement to trajectory’s creative. Government
of Veracruz, Mexico.
Project for Paintig: Iconography fo the tropics.
1998
Biennial of Paintig and sculpture Olga Costa. Museum
Jose Chavez Morado y Olga Costa, Guanajuato. Mexico.
1999-2000
Encouragement to trajectory’s creative. Government
of Veracruz, Mexico. Project for Installations: Outside
Installations.
2001-2002
Education for Art. CONACULTA, Veracruz, Mexico. Project:
Seaport’s Change
Her project in Banff:
Healer Women
refers to the knowledgeable women about the native traditional
medicine, which is based on rites for curing other women,
mainly in the childbirth moment; furthermore, these
women purify, make fright’s cures and heal all
the diseases that affect to the communities where they
live. Staring from this rite concept, linked to the
act of curing, my reflection is focused on this kind
of chosen women, who posses a power that makes them
different from others, because of their wisdom and development
of a great spirit.
Goals:
- Regarding to the native culture
from Veracruz, nowadays, there are Nahuatl, Huasteco,
Totonaco, Tepehua and Popoluca native cultures subsisting
in the State of Veracruz, and the majority of them,
conserve Mesoamerican traditions which are reflected
on religious and daily life, also, these traditions
assume the position of knowledge transmitted for generations,
starting from oral traditions, dances, rites, music,
gastronomy and craftsmanship; the way for understanding
world is reflected mostly in the rite.
- I would like to preserve my
identity like a human and an artist.
- Fortifying my professional development
on visual arts, starting from the experience of accomplishing
my personal work at the Banff Center, trying out with
some three-dimensional techniques as high temperature
ceramic, wood and stone sculpt.
My future plans:
- I would like to show the installation
produced in the residency in my own country and others,
because I think is necessary to demonstrate through
contemporary art the magnificence of the alive cultures
of Mexico.
- Also, I’m planning to continue
with ceramics, because is the connection with the
earth and the aboriginal thinking.
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