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Berenice Olmedo

– Casa Wabi 2026

Community Project

Using various pedagogical and play-based techniques, the entire student population of the Río Grande Multiple Care Center was engaged. Taking into account the different disabilities the students presented, exercises in listening, motor skills, clay sculpting, and painting were organized.

Log-Piece

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    Mexico

    Oaxaca, 1987

    Berenice Olmedo was born in 1987 in Oaxaca, Mexico. In the world I propose, there is no stigma surrounding disability — only variations of existence, variations of movement, variations of slowness and speed.
    Berenice Olmedo is known for her sculptures and kinetic objects, in which she often integrates prostheses and orthoses. Her fusions of body parts challenge the notion of human integrity and highlight the political dimensions of disability, illness, and healthcare. The artist questions standardized expectations of our bodies and explores to what extent external aids are essential to human existence. By repurposing forms and materials from the medical field, she challenges the pursuit of efficiency and absolute perfection in favor of a more physical, political, and existential contemporary experience.
    Her work has been exhibited at Kunsthalle Basel; ICA Boston, Boston; Boros Collection, Berlin; Dortmunder Kunstverein; TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife; Eres Foundation, Munich; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts; Krannert Art Museum, Chicago; Museum of Modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt; Simian, Copenhagen; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Haus Mödrath – Räume für Kunst, Kerpen; Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte (MUCA), Mexico City; and CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux.