Maria Gimeno: Blinded by Patriarchy

Blinded by Patriarchy is the title of a performative lecture where the Spanish multidisciplinary artist Maria Gimeno unveils her journey towards feminist artivism. A reflection on the importance of awareness and critical thinking as a way of interacting with the world. Using her artistic practice as the vehicle express her goals. The lecture will make a special emphasis on the multi-element, ongoing project Old Mistresses, Queridas viejas. A project that aims to rewrite history of art in terms of gender. 

Bio/CV:
 Visual artist and performer, she lives and works in Madrid. Her work evolves out of her own experience and is expressed through concept, ideas, and craft. Gimeno’s career has progressively moved from the personal to the social: from art understood as an introspective tool to an open debate against gender inequality. She uses different artistic media such as drawing, printmaking, embroidery, video, and performance to best express her interests.

Feminism is the main driving force of her practice. Since 2014, she has developed an ongoing research project—primarily carried out as performance and also through object-based works—titled Queridas viejas (Old Mistresses), whose aim is to rewrite the history of Western art in terms of gender, paying homage and doing justice to women artists.

María Gimeno, Zamora 1970. M.A. in Fine Arts from U.C.M. PhD candidate at UCLM. She collaborates with galleries in Spain, Switzerland, and Mexico. From 1998 to 2001, María ran her own alternative art space, promoting the work of young artists. She has performed and exhibited her work in galleries and museums such as the Prado, and internationally at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, Museo Kaluz in Mexico City, and Muntref Buenos Aires, among others.