Ana Márquez is a writer, poet, and comparatist researcher in Art, Literature and Culture based in Monterrey, México.
“Installing a show is like writing. Each work of art is a word and you are making sentences within an individual gallery, and individual galleries within an exhibition add up to make an essay.”
Anne Umland, Senior Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA, NY
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Kahlo’s: Appearances Can Be Deceiving
After artist Frida Kahlo died in 1954, Mexican painter Diego Rivera, two times husband of Kahlo, instructed to lockdown her wardrobe and belongings. They were kept mainly in her night room bathroom. Since…
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Destierros de Gabriela Riveros: una lectura desde el margen
La historia de Destierros es de las se te meten debajo de la piel y empiezan a hacer surco. El relato se va tejiendo en espiral, creciendo sobre sí mismo como un amonite…
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Valle de Guadalupe: el corazón en el lugar correcto
Mucha gente tiene en su “bucket list” el visitar los viñedos de Valle de Guadalupe en Baja California, México. Está en su lista de deseos por cumplir en esta vida porque se sabe…
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Revisiting Warhol’s Sunset and Cage’s 4’33
I am about to confess. I’m becoming aware I’m a passive viewer which in these days it doesn’t seem a good thing. I could use an euphemism and say I’m a classic viewer,…
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Furcias y brujas
Simone de Beauvoir dejó registro de una ocasión en la que un hombre le comentó, “Una mujer que no tiene miedo a los hombres, les provoca miedo”: “Une femme qui n’a pas peur…
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Enrique Chavarría: Mexican Outsider Surrealism
Born in Mexico City in 1927, painter and draftsman Enrique Chavarría is one of Mexico’s best kept secrets. Late American gallery owner Bryna Prensky said -in a conflicting remark- she held at part…
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Avant-Garde
Poem published in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Spring-Summer issue 2022. Beltway Poetry Quarterly is an award-winning online literary journal and resource bank that showcases the literary community in Washington, DC and the surrounding Mid-Atlantic region.…
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Sitios de Espera
Ana Márquez is author of “Sitios de Espera”, a poetry book published in 2006 by “Libraria”, her own publishing house. “Sitios de Espera” was a semiotic experiment, an object-book, published in the midst…
Ana Márquez
San Pedro, Garza García
Nuevo León, México
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