Minerva Cuevas

Mexico

Minerva Cuevas (b.1975, Mexico City) is an artist creating research-based projects that allow the viewers an insight into the economic and political organization of the social sphere through site-specific actions and artworks. She is the founder of Mejor Vida Corp. (1998) and the International Understanding Foundation (2016).

Cuevas’ institutional solo exhibitions include: No Room To Play, daadgalerie, Berlin (2019); Dissidência, Galpão VB, São Paulo (2018); Minerva Cuevas, Museo de la Ciudad de México (2012); SCOOP, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2010); Minerva Cuevas, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2008), Phenomena, Kunsthalle Basel (2007); MVC Biotechnologies, Vienna Secession (2001). Selected group exhibitions, include: SFMOMA, San Francisco (2019); MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome (2015). Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2016); Guggenheim Museum, New York 2014; Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010); Redcat, Los Angeles (2006); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2005), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2003).

Fine Land reflects on the small and large impact of technology and fossil fuels in a natural and social landscape. In our increasingly fast-paced world, comics can succinctly communicate information and evoke emotional responses, often by simultaneously depicting multiple narratives and balancing levity with seriousness. The red and black landscape that the artist presents us portraits references to indigenous culture, migration, natural resources, and industries through the familiar language of graphic novels and the use of visual metaphors. Multiple stories can be told from this environment and the animal characters like the ant carrying a grain of corn, prairie dogs wearing bullet-proof vests or an armadillo wearing an armor can remind us that the earth’s landscape is common.

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