\María José Arjona
María José Arjona, *1973 in Bogotá, Colombia
lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia
Photo © Jens Ziehe
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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María José Arjona
154 x 200 cm
María José Arjona
Framed 37 x 52 cm
María José Arjona
Framed 27 x 37 cm
María José Arjona
María José Arjona
Framed 37 x 27 cm
María José Arjona
Framed 37 x 27 cm
María José Arjona
Framed 37 x 27 cm
María José Arjona
Framed 37 x 27 cm
María José Arjona
Framed 37 x 27 cm
23,5 x 19,5 x 3 cm
María José Arjona
23,5 x 19,5 x 3 cm
María José Arjona
Framed 38,7 x 30,7 x 2,5 cm
María José Arjona
Framed 30,7 x 38,7 x 2,5 cm