Biography

Mercedes Azpilicueta’s practice brings together performance, sculpture, installation, and text. Combining craft-based techniques with industrial production, she creates layered works inspired by speculative Latin American literature, Neo-Baroque art history, and new materialist theory. Her research-driven practice weaves together voices, histories, and embodied narratives, examining how language, memory, and identity are continually performed and reimagined. Her work has been presented internationally through solo exhibitions at de Appel, Amsterdam; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein; COLLECTIVE, Edinburgh; Gasworks, London; Museion, Bolzano; and MAMBA, Buenos Aires. She has also exhibited at the Barbican Centre, London; Lyon Biennale; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; IMMA, Dublin; MAXXI, Rome; MACBA, Barcelona; and the Busan Biennale. Azpilicueta earned a BFA from the Universidad Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires (2007), and an MFA from the Dutch Art Institute/ArtEZ (2013). She attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (2015–2016), received the Pernod Ricard Fellowship (2017), and was nominated for the Prix de Rome (2021).

Artworks

Souq Al Mina

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Mercedes Azpilicueta

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