Miriam Medrez was born in Mexico City in the year 1958; she studied Plastic Arts at the UNAM, as well as at Montreal’s Concordia University in Canada; she also completed educational labour at Jerusalem’s Betzalel University in Israel.
In the year 1985, she established herself in the city of Monterrey, located in the State of Nuevo León; during this time, she intensified her work as a sculptor at the start of the 1980’s; since then, she has undergone a constant search; addressing different means, and experimenting with diverse techniques filled with notable quality of execution and craft. All of this has brought her to obtain recognition, awards (1st place in sculpting, IV Bienal Monterrey Femsa, 1998), institutional stimuli (Sistema Nacional de Creadores FONCA/CONACULTA 2006 – 2009 and 2010 – 2013); she has also exposed her work in museums (individual retrospectives at the MARCO Museum of Monterrey from 1995 through 2008); as well as other public and private forums in Mexico and abroad.
Even when she transited through abstraction, her link with corporeality has always been present—particularly in her most recent work. Her consideration of the female body is the main subject and constant theme of her work. Images of the female body abound in the history of art; generally made through a man’s optic vision, as an erotic object; nevertheless, the work presented by the artist, Medrez, is accomplished by means of her very own vision and entrails.
The view applied to every one of her individual pieces is made from the inside out and successfully emanates from genre ideas taken from an intimate, as well as a universal perspective. The essence of Medrez’s work is focused on the importance of manual work; one which gives the capacity of giving form to a sculpture through the dexterity of her own hands and sense of touch; lovingly creating and carefully molding each piece. Every work of art made by her, transmits the most powerful connection between the human eye and hand. It offers a successful transmission of feeling and gives the spectator an opening to a portal which will take them into world’s never before reached or even imagined.