helena vinent
She works with various formats, including video, photography, text, sculpture, performance, and installation. Disassociation, subtitles, noise, technological acceleration, prosthetics, errors, misunderstandings, policies of body control, identity alliances, and speculative spaces are designations that can serve to define her lines of artistic research. Her work, traversed by the crip-queer discourse, addresses the idea of human and posthuman construction, based on the premise that in an ableist society such as the one we live in, the body assigned as disabled is not read as a complete human body. In her recent work she questions the normative standards of pleasure and access, calling for other functional possibilities that devise other ways of being and being in the world. Inspired by the power and rebellion of punk bands, he creates imaginaries that revolve around the conception of a disabled band that assaults and disrupts normality, understanding each new artistic project as a possible action of this imagined band. Based on this idea, he subverts the abelistic and paternalistic vision of disabled people as complacent, asexual, submissive, inoffensive, boring, isolated and without any kind of political or sex-affective agency.
With a degree in Applied Arts in Sculpture from the Escola Llotja and in Fine Arts from the Universitat de Barcelona, she is currently studying the Master's Degree in Cultural Studies and Visual Arts (feminist and queer perspectives) at the Miguel Hernández University. She has participated in national and international collective and individual exhibitions, in cities such as Barcelona, Madrid, Rotterdam, Kassel, Palma, Nancy, Montpellier and Mexico City. She has carried out artistic residencies at Fabra i Coats, Hangar, and La Escocesa (Barcelona), and has received several awards and grants, including the Sala de Arte Joven Award, the Guasch Coranty Grant, the Hangar Production Grant, the Güell Foundation Visual Arts Grant, the Baumannlab Production Grant, the ICUB Creation and Museums Grant, the Generation 2021 Award, the Research and Innovation in the Field of Visual Arts Grant from the Government of Catalonia, the Barcelona Awards 2020 Grant, the EMPELT grant, the Miquel Casablancas award and the Barcelona Crea grant. Her work is in the collections of the Montemadrid Foundation, the Guasch Coranty Foundation, the Güell Foundation, San Andreu Contemporani, and MACBA.
