Alejandra López Yasky
Hermosillo, Sonora, 1973

Lives and works in Mexico City and Buenos Aires.

The search for Alejandra López Yasky -Ale Lo Yas- is first of all an investigation into the nature of painting throughout the Universe. Geometric elements, mainly circles, are related to each other forming orbits that build a complex and at the same time primordial visual discourse. Experimenting with various techniques and supports: oil, water-soluble oil, acrylic, wax, canvas, wood, assembling objects and collage, Ale Lo Yas's painting seeks to pierce two-dimensional space and enter an ulterior dimension. The artist appropriates images taken from instruments of scientific dissemination from various eras, she deconstructs them and creates new constellations of meaning. The luminous and dark elements that originate her work cross and seem to dissect different points of the geographical physical space that the western iconographic tradition of the Universe brings us closer to. Slipping between the known and the unknown, the already seen and the mystery, López Yasky accentuates this frontier and reconstructs a personal space that immerses us in an intimate and at the same time cosmic dimension.

Throughout his career he has held numerous solo and group exhibitions. Especially noteworthy are Ether, a project exhibited at the Museum of the Chancellery in 2020. Sensus that he mounted in 2012 in the Room of the Universe of the Museum of Natural History of Mexico City, the projects The Time before the Present, and Deconstruction of a Landscape Found, exhibited at the Traeger & Pinto Arte Contemporáneo Cdmx gallery, in 2017 and 2015 respectively. In 2018 he was part of the Lumen Parameter 03 Art Biennial based at the Museum of Mexico City. In 2019 she participated in Territories of Memory, in the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City and also in 2019 she had the retrospective exhibition Alejandra López Yasky, selection of work 2011-2019, at the Centro de las Artes de San Luis Potosí, SLP. She participated in the 2000 Havana Biennial and her work has been published in national and international magazines and catalogs. In 2011 she was a fellow at the ARNA project's painting residency in Harlösa, Sweden.