Wendy Cabrera Rubio

Wendy Cabrera Rubio is part of a generation of artists invested in revisiting the history of Mexican arts and crafts through a multidisciplinary and pedagogical approach. Her practice explores the production and distribution of images; using strategies such as appropriation and performance, Cabrera condenses high and low, arts and crafts, history and storytelling. Her work frequently consists of two-dimensional and three-dimensional quilted objects, cartoon-like characters and/or felt landscapes that stage different narratives (often in the form of a puppet theatre) influenced by educational television programmes from the first half of the 20th century.

Among the recurrent topics in her work are the concept of the so-called Pan-American history and its relation to North American interventionism in Latin America as embodied by the cultural industries, particularly in Walt Disney’s productions. In this vein, Cabrera’s practice critically addresses the ideological aspects of identity politics.