My Father Taught Me to Play
So Cabrera López
My Father Taught Me to Play

My Father Taught Me to Play is an installation consisting of a sculpture in concrete and a video performance that focuses on the father figure and how patriarchal impositions influence the family. Upon becoming aware of the subliminal violences exerted by the father figure in a patriarchal society, it is understood that many of their teachings are shaped by social expectations imposed on him. This project seeks to challenge these norms, confront the figure of the father, and liberate both the father and oneself from these impositions.

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So Cabrera López
So Cabrera López

So Cabrera López (Mexico City, 1993) holds a degree in Artes Plásticas from the Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico (2018) and participated in the Seminario de Producción Fotografico in the museum Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City (2021). Their work, which addresses their experience as a non-binary fat person and diagnosed with lupus, seeks to explore the poetic and conceptual forms of space as understood in their phenomenological sense as places our bodies inhabit, move and affect each other. 

Cabrera is interested in generating images that articulate, denounce and critically resist the various systems that impact them; their artistic processes are multidisciplinary, intimate and sincere. Cabrera has had five solo exhibitions, the most recent being Filo para Volar (Torre Andrade, León, Guanajuato, 2024). In 2022, Cabrera participated in the group show Accidentes Familiares at the Centro de la Imagen (Mexico City), the arts festival Encender un Fósforo at the Museo Universitario del Chopo (Mexico City) in 2020, and in 2022 they were selected for the National Youth Art Encounter Award.

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