Artist
Teresa SerranoMexican, born 1936
CultureMexican
Titles
- La Piñata
Date2003
MediumSingle-channel video, edition 2/5 + 1 AP
Dimensions5 minutes, 45 seconds
Credit LineGift of Elizabeth Díaz-Soto in honor of Gilbert Vicario
Object number2008.448
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 309
On view
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Department
Latin American ArtObject Type
Exhibition History“Problematic,” Miami/Basel Art Fair, Scope Art Fair
Town House Hotel, Palm Beach, 2003.[Curator: Robert Knafo.]
"Frere Independent- Moving Images,"
The Pleasure Dome, Windsor Hotel New York, NY, 2003. [Curator: Raul Zamudio.]
5th Ewha Media Art Presentation: "
Curators: Dr. Kim Hong-hee / Professor Cho Suck Hyun Inhee Iris Moon.]
“La Costilla Maldita” Museo MEIAC, Badajoz, España, 2005. [Curator Margarita Aispuro]
"Against Our Wills," Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies, 2005. [Curator: Erin Salazar]
"Frontera 450 +," Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas, 2006. [Curator James Harithas and Rosalinda Gonzalez]
"FOR YOU: The Daros-Latinamerica Tapes & Video Installations," Zurich, Switzerland, 2009.
"No one more, The Juarez Murders," The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University, 2010.
"Imágenes extremas de mujeres a través de la combatividad y de la Resistencia,”
Centro Cultural El Matadero de Madrid, Spain, March 3, 2012.
"In-Out-House. Circuitos de género y violencia en la era Tecnológica."
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, October 3 - December 4, 2012.
"Teresa Serrano. Albur de Amor,"
CAAM Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 2012.
"The Emo Show," EFA Project Space, New York, 2013.
"In-Out-House. Circuitos de género y violencia en la era Tecnológica."
Sala X Universidad de Vigo
Pontevedra, Spain, 2013.
"Mapping Gender," School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 2013.
"TE(A)MO," Universidad de Cantabaria, Spain, 2013.
"Teresa Serrano. Albur de Amor," TEA Tenerife espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Canarias, Spain, 2013.
"DESENLACE: Teresa Serrano e Miguel Angel Rios, Ol Futuro Flamego, Brazil, 2013.
"Teresa Serrano. Albur de Amor," Museo Atrium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Pais Vasco, Spain, 2014.
"Contingent Beauty." Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. November 22, 2015 - February 28th, 2016
Marked in ink on the disc: "La Piñata / RT: 5:45 min. / exhibition copy"
Signed in ink on the disc: "Teresa Serrano / © 2003"
Printed on cover page:
"TERESA SERRANO / La Piñata / 2003 / Video / 00:05:45 / Edición 2 de 5 + 1 PA"
"In the Last 10 years, 340 young girls from the Manufacturing Industry in Ciedad Juarez, Chihuahua, in the / border of Mexico and the USA have been murdered. / Till this days the woman are murdered and the cases are not solved yet. / I sent to be made a Piñata with the form of a young girl and I dressed and painted her in the way this girls / from the border do. I put her a natural hair wig and I hang it like in the parties we Mexicans do, during the / religious feasts of December called "Posadas". / We also use this Piñatas to be broken, filled with fruit and candies in children parties. / I Hired a theater actor in Mexico and explained him the motive of this video. / The video shows an uncomfortable performance of an act of misogyny through an incredible Mexican actor. / Teresa Serrano, México DF"
"TERESA SERRANO / La Piñata / 2003 / Video / 00:05:45 / Edición 2 de 5 + 1 PA"
"In the Last 10 years, 340 young girls from the Manufacturing Industry in Ciedad Juarez, Chihuahua, in the / border of Mexico and the USA have been murdered. / Till this days the woman are murdered and the cases are not solved yet. / I sent to be made a Piñata with the form of a young girl and I dressed and painted her in the way this girls / from the border do. I put her a natural hair wig and I hang it like in the parties we Mexicans do, during the / religious feasts of December called "Posadas". / We also use this Piñatas to be broken, filled with fruit and candies in children parties. / I Hired a theater actor in Mexico and explained him the motive of this video. / The video shows an uncomfortable performance of an act of misogyny through an incredible Mexican actor. / Teresa Serrano, México DF"
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