Galerie Barbara Thumm \ María José Arjona

\María José Arjona

María José Arjona, *1973 in Bogotá, Colombia
lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia

Photo © Jens Ziehe

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Maria José Arjona (b. 1973 in Bogotá, Colombia) is a Colombian multidisciplinary performance artist whose work proposes through radical poetic gestures a unique form of political resistance. At a time when political art is understood primarily as political activism, Arjona instead treats the body as a site for subtle and complex re-articulations and questionings of normative conditioning and violence. She moves away from a focus on the identity of the artist to highlight the organic, expansive shared potential of the body, a body that in its centrality may not be individual or biographical, but collective and unconditioned.

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Selected Works

Galerie Barbara Thumm \ María José Arjona \ Infinite Animal (2017)

María José Arjona

Infinite Animal (2017)
Charcoal on fabriano paper
154 x 200 cm
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ María José Arjona \ Untitled (2016)

María José Arjona

Untitled (2016)
Ash and tobacco on paper
Framed 37 x 52 cm
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ María José Arjona \ Untitled (2016)

María José Arjona

Untitled (2016)
Ash, tobacco and pencil on paper
Framed 27 x 37 cm
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ María José Arjona \ Suit to Fly (2015)

María José Arjona

Suit to Fly (2015)
Feather poncho and overall
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ María José Arjona \ Untitled (2016)

María José Arjona

Untitled (2016)
Ash, tobacco and pencil on paper
Framed 37 x 27 cm
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ María José Arjona \ Untitled (2016)

María José Arjona

Untitled (2016)
Ash, tobacco and pencil on paper
Framed 37 x 27 cm
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ María José Arjona \ Untitled (2016)

María José Arjona

Untitled (2016)
Ash, tobacco and pencil on paper
Framed 37 x 27 cm
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ María José Arjona \ Untitled (2016)

María José Arjona

Untitled (2016)
Ash, tobacco and pencil on paper
Framed 37 x 27 cm
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ María José Arjona \ Untitled, (2016)

María José Arjona

Untitled, (2016)
Watercolor on paper
Framed 37 x 27 cm
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ María José Arjona \ Untitled (2016)

Untitled (2016)
Pencil on paper
23,5 x 19,5 x 3 cm
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ María José Arjona \ Untitled (2016)

María José Arjona

Untitled (2016)
Pencil on paper
23,5 x 19,5 x 3 cm
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ María José Arjona \ Untitled (2016)

María José Arjona

Untitled (2016)
Collage on paper
Framed 38,7 x 30,7 x 2,5 cm
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ María José Arjona \ Untitled (2016)

María José Arjona

Untitled (2016)
Collage on paper
Framed 30,7 x 38,7 x 2,5 cm

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