Nelly
César

About Portfolio

Nelly César is a feminist Mexican artist currently living in Vancouver, Canada. Her work is merely related to misbehavior, perversion and deviancy through exploiting the rhetoric of the "animal" behavior as a political tool of subjective reconfiguration. Her work experiments with contra-institutional relations with her specific cultural and geographic locations. She has worked in Puebla, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and Vancouver in a series of "experiences" she designs and later on privately performs. Instead of documenting her acts in photography or video she translates her experience in multidisciplinary work. She parts from the idea of using herself as a political guinea pig inside a pervert laboratory designed on her own.


She is currently enrolled in the MFA program of the University of British Columbia supported by Fundación/Colección Jumex where she is developing The following projects: Boring Honeymoon, To My Dear World obsessed with Penetration and Doing What I Do Best…Being a Pervert. These projects are to be constituted by a series of paintings, drawings, and installations addressing contemporary concerns on critical issues in sexuality, power relations, and contra-sexual politics.


-Born in Mexico City in 1986
-Graduated with a Licenciatura en Artes Plásticas from Universidad de las Américas Puebla in 2009

 

 

 

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Bury your head like an ostrich

 

Bury yourself for a weekend in your childhood's playground

 

Go for a stroll downtown on all fours

 

Spend 24 hours imitating a she dog

 

Spend the day inside a street pot hole with the head at ground level

 

Spend the night in a nest built with wastes in an unkown city

 

Take a nap with a stray dog beneath a car

Body Invasive              
Dirty library  Scatter dirt in a library Invasive Spend 4 hours digging a hole with a spoon and the cover it with your feet and face  
 
    Other          
  She . Life size cage and leash made out of human hair  

To my dear world obsessed with
penetration

Topography of a slot