Angélica Chio has lived and worked alternately in Berlin and Mexico City. She currently resides in Mexico City, where she was born in 1966. She studied Visual Arts at the National School of Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking "La Esmeralda" in Mexico City, and pursued postgraduate studies in Art in Context at the University of the Arts Berlin. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, video festivals, and national and international cooperative projects. She has been a recipient of grants from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts, Mexico, and in 2023 she received a grant for artists over 45 years old from the Kunststiftung K52 (Art Foundation K52) in Germany.
Investigating language and its possibilities of translation and transference, as well as proposing new alliances between word and image, constitute the compass and guiding thread of her artistic research. Rather than exploring a medium of expression, she focuses on concepts around an event and approaches it from different perspectives and strategies, creating independent and interconnected works, primarily drawings, objects, artist books, videos, and installations.
Embroidery on Canvas, 2022
The continuous repetition of the trips I have made between my hometown and the city where I live reminds me of the synchronized flight of birds. Following this image, for each flight, I draw a line from one end of a canvas to the other, in one direction and in the other.
On the other hand, the experience of observing the flight of an airplane from the ground is very different from that of a passenger. Making the strokes with a sewing machine I seek to represent the passing of time in the monotony of the small and countless stitches.
Like my relationship with both cities, the canvas has no left or right side. Therefore, instead of writing their names, I add two palindromes that I use continuously to refer to my hometown or my city of residence, depending on the city where I am: acá (here) and allá (there).