Artist, arts promoter and curator whose work comes from interest in official historic narrative and the counter-stories that specific micro-histories offer. Combined images, texts and readings articulate the artist’s work. In a cross between narrative, essay and poetry, she has written for her own performances and those of other artists, written for magazines, exhibits, catalogues and collective exhibit publications. She has worked as co-director—alongside Oscar Formacio—at the ERROR independent space in Puebla and Mexico City; and since 2018, in partnership with Ana Gallardo, she has coordinated the IMÁN independent-studies program. Her work has exhibited in museums, festivals and galleries everywhere from Albania to Belgium, China, Colombia, France, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Serbia and Spain. Since 2016, she has partnered with Puebla’s Museo Amparo as an academic and curation coordinator for wide-ranging public programs and projects. She has worked as a teacher, curator and consultant at numerous public and private institutions, independent spaces and training programs in Mexico and Italy, among other countries. She is currently an undergraduate contemporary art professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.

Pistas para historias de piel (un guión en cien microactos), 2024
Installation
Acrylic painting on cotton backdrop, publication, and video (color, sound)

Nina Fiocco’s practice centers on field research and collaboration. During the months leading up to the Biennial, Fiocco compiled 100 microhistories linked to mining, tanning, maquila, sex work, slavery, and regional economies, based on interviews conducted with people in León and Guanajuato. The project arises from an interest in storytelling as a form of political agency. Beyond truth-telling, it seeks to challenge the idea of ​​oral histories as unreliable and, rather, consider them primary sources. A fabric displays selections from the 100 microstories, and the stories can be consulted in their entirety in a publication available in the exposition room. In a video, child narrator Alexander Arreola Subias reinterprets some of these stories. Fiocco collaborated with the radio station at the University of Guanajuato (Radio UG), where different people will enact the stories daily. In addition, Laura Casillas will hold an oral storytelling workshop during the Biennial.

The stories in this project were written in collaboration with Iraís Cortés López, Miranda de los Ángeles Espinosa Giles, Victoria Elizondo, Atza Escalante Zamorano, and Shoko Wen, and in conversation with Enrique Arriola, Laura Casillas, Miguel Ángel Collazo, Eduardo Cornejo, Víctor Hermosillo, Mario Ibarra, Taniel Morales, Liliana Pérez Estrada, Juan Carlos Porras y Manrique, Jaime Ruíz Martínez, Irving de Jesús Segovia Pérez “Tuxamee”, Judith Scarpulli Moguel, Elizabeth Subias Pérez, Isis Yépez, José Eduardo Vidaurri, and many others.