Ximena Cuevas

Ximena Cuevas

62 (1963-01-01)
Mexico City, Mexico

Ximena Cuevas (born 1963) is a Mexican videomaker and performance artist. Her work often explores the possibilities of the relationship between the social aspect and gender issues in contemporary society.

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Hawai 1999 (4)

An upper class wedding in Mexico City where the guests fantasize about the exotic faraway dreamscape that is their “Hawai”.
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La Tombola 2001 (8)

Take back the airwaves: Mexico’s video art doyenne Ximena Cuevas books herself onto the tabloid talk show Tombola, toying at first with whimsical deconstruction until she turns the whole affair on its head by seizing the televisual flow itself.
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Diablo en la Piel 1998 (8)

The palms of Lana Turner's hands were full of scars; the technique she used in order to achieve melodrama was to tighten her fists, digging her fingernails into them until she began to cry. Day after day, soap opera actresses smear Vick's Vaporub into their eyes in order to cry. The effect of these false tears are the tears of the public. In Devil in the Flesh we see the camera's tricks, and even so the action seems dramatic. This piece once again exemplifies my fascination with the artificial: the fabricated emotions; the Christian looking for pain in order to live out Passion; the discomfort of the everyday melodrama; the emptiness that defeats everything
Alejandrina Ximenas Cuevas García

Alejandrina Ximenas Cuevas García

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See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.