Associação Cultural Videobrasil

“Ximena Cuevas is Mexico’s video artist extraordinaire: half magician, half mermaid, master of all she surveys. Cuevas looks upon her beloved metropolis of Mexico City with an eye both jaundiced and passionate. At the same time, she has turned her camera back on her own daily life and charted the quotidian pleasures and crisis found therein. Her camera is expressive and inventive, her editing style and edgy, her musical taste unerring. Whether her subject is lesbian romance or heterosexual machismo, you couldn’t ask for a better guide.” B.Ruby Rich San Francisco 1998 “... Cuerpos de papel (Cuevas, Mexico)illustrated how beauty may be perceived though a process of creative vision, demonstrated the potential of electronic imaging to humanize the subjects rather than to transform it into flashy cartoon” James Moran The Independent December 1998 “Throughout each piece Cuevas displays her trademark irreverent humor, her biting social commentary, and of course, her grand and often flamboyant visual style” Jim Mendiola San Francisco Bay Gardian 16 september 1998 “Who are the emerging media artists who are exciting you at the moment? Ximena Cuevas, Alex River, Jesse Lerner Elisabeth Subrin, and Vicky Funari are all doing really impressive work in re-examining and re-inventing the documentary genre. “ Maria Christina Villaseñor Assistant Curator of Film and Media Guggenheim Museum “(on Mix New York 1999...) With a whole evening devoted to 19 of her shorts, Mexican video arist Ximena Cuevas ranks as the best represented contributor. Contemporary Artists, where Cuevas attempts to introduce herself to an art-world -big-wig, is blisteringly funny, while more impressionistic work like ‘Cama’ (about a bed) ‘Ante de la televisión’ (about a murderous vacuum cleaner) and ‘Calzada de Kansas’ (about friends of Dorothy) reveal a camp whimsy tinged with an existencial darkness.” Davis Bahr Village Voice 16 november 1999 “(on Mix New York 1999...) This year a talented Mexican video artist, Ximena Cuevas, is deservedly given a mini retrospective. Although the program notes say her work has screened at several local museums, Cuevas stylish, colorful work is wisted, original, and lush - definitely worth catching if you missed it so far.” Aaron Krach Lesbian and Gay New York 28 November 1999 “Mexican video artist Ximena Cuevas is the bomb! She is a poet of everyday life, a master of self-portraits, a perpetual explorer of lies under the layers of artifice of the performer. Cuevas is the fairy godmother of a new melodrama as excessive as that of the classic Mexican cinema, but boldly defying taboo subjects with the lightness and a self-conscious sense of humor. She examines life’s intimate quotidian pleasures and sorrows with passion that distinguishes her from all of her contemporaries both inside and outside her native Mexico. With a unique child-like sense of curiosity and wonder, she invests magic in familiar subjects that surround her. Her hyper-layered, exquisitely scored, and intesely personal videos are ferociously surprising and imaginative.”

Sergio De la Mora Senses of Cinema

Associação Cultural Videobrasil