Ximena Bedoya is an interdisciplinary artist and designer from Perú, currently living and working in New York.
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My practice explores the transitional states of mind, body and space. Given the futility of expectation and control over fluctuating moments in life, my work serves as a response on two levels: discomfort and inquiry on the one hand; inevitability and absurdity on the other. This response is articulated through material exploration, video, sound, and installation.
The intention is not solely about entropy: in my work, time is relative to the viewer in a gestalt sense. Since we can never perceive the full magnitude of the passage of time, a dislocated perspective is key, which can bring an element of surprise, an acknowledgement of mistake, a birthing question or an embodied contradiction.
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Ximena is half of Lobby Art Editions, a record + cassette label with roots in New York, Western Mass and Lima.
She received a BA in Fine Arts & Product Design at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima, Perú and an MFA in Applied Craft & Design from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and Oregon College of Arts & Crafts in Portland, OR.