Esperanza Mayor
Bio
Esperanza Mayor was born in Asunción. She studied Accounting, Administrative and Economic Sciences at the Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción. She studied art with Nuno Ramos, José Resende, Edith Jiménez, Alicia Díaz-Rinaldi, Michael Krueger, Lívio Abramo and Susana Romero.
In 1989 Mayor opened the art space Pequeña Galería, and, in 2000, the Casa Mayor art gallery. In 2017 she founded Espacio Casa Mayor, under the concept of cultural co-working.
Her first solo exhibition, La última memoria, was held in 1993, at the Manzana de la Rivera, curated by Carlos Colombino.
In 1999 she participated in the exhibition Siglo XX: Una interpretación de los artistas paraguayos, curated by Miguel Ángel Fernández, at the Centro de Estudios Brasileños of the Brazilian Embassy in Asunción.
In 2017 she presented the exhibition Éxodos, curated by Adriana Almada, at the Centro Cultural de España Juan de Salazar, as part of the Arte en Vitrina program Vitrina program.
Statement
Esperanza Mayor's work proposes an investigation on the objectual, that is based on the search for a rarefying of the function of found pieces. The interventions that the artist makes on these objects appeal to liberate meanings that lie in the materiality or in the forms of the pieces. Introducing sculptural, organic, and industrial materials on boxes and similar supports, the artist creates limited files that establish an interaction of elements and that, by contiguity, inform about the conceptual nature of the work. The ominous and the mournful are aspects that orbit Mayor's concerns, which are integrated with an inquiry about migrant memories and their effects on experience.
