Amor Muñoz Epistemologies of Touch

In this exhibition, Mexican artist Amor Muñoz presents nine research-creation works that intertwine technology, craftsmanship, nature, and language in a sensorial and critical approach. Through her artistic practice, Muñoz develops a poetic that gradually reveals itself to the viewer through the activation of the senses, proposing an alternative form of knowledge: intuitive, corporeal, communal, and situated.

This body of work showcases a consolidated body of work, the result of nearly two decades of interdisciplinary exploration. Muñoz's work has explored diverse themes, including labor, technodiversity, coded poetics, the connections between form and sound, and posthumanist speculations through artificial intelligence and living matter. Her production articulates art as a social, participatory, and reflective instrument, committed to territories and communities. This positioning is no coincidence: Muñoz studied law before dedicating herself fully to art, and grew up in Ecatepec, a context marked by profound social inequalities and environmental issues. These experiences shape a critical and sensitive perspective, which imbues her work with an awareness of the body, the social and natural environment, and collective memory.

In the pieces gathered in this exhibition, the artist invites us to read the unwritten and to listen to that which lacks a human voice. Technology, far from being cold or distant, becomes a sensitive material here: soft, intimate, and close. Textiles sing, walls codify, water expresses itself, corn speaks in a sonorous body, and the handmade is dignified. At the heart of this artistic practice lies perhaps an essential question: what will the knowledge of the future be like? Perhaps it is not about knowing more, but about doing it better, with respect for the land and its languages.

Words by Mónica Benítez Dávila

Excerpted from the official press release courtesy of bitforms gallery