Alejandra Alarcon

Alejandra was born in Bolivia. She lives and works actually in Mexico city. She earned a Bachelor's degree in sociology at the Mayor University of San Simon, Cochabamba, Bolivia, and a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts painting and engraving at La Esmeralda , National Art Center , Mexico, D.F., Mexico.

My work focuses on the feminine identity. I wonder along an adjoining terrain in which identity is the result of continuous negotiation amongst people, where "to be" is not something given and immovable but something changeable, as Argullol suggests in his book Filosofía Nómada: "I am the other in me". I am interested in the so called "isoglosa" zones that separate and join together at the same time subjects, gender (transgender), situations, roles, archetypes, etc.

I am interested as well in dismantling the bases of imaginaries of the western world, like infantile mythology (fairy tales), which has been created around the family as legitimating institution to society. My interest is to deepen in post-feminism, as this is the base from which I create a new feminine image empowered through seduction, but also dangerous in her castrating maternity.

Doing the series of "Little Riding Hood, the reddest" (Caperucita, las m...

Esmeralda, Mexico df, MX,