Circé – Artist based in Mexico

Circé’s practice begins with an exploration of the female body as a symbolic space, opening an inquiry of identity and power.

The fundamental tension in her work lies among faceless bodies, the drives they stage, and the power structures implicitly organized by their collective postures, choreographies of compliance, refusal, and care. Any gender the viewer reads is a performative assignment; the figures take on gender within the context of each piece rather than as a fixed attribute.

The interplay between subconscious desire, personal existence, and the otherness that truly shapes one’s identity takes center stage in her artistic endeavor. These themes are channeled through the different periods of her work, where life experience and research deeply intertwine with artistic expression.

Relationships, their power dynamics, and precarious equilibria, within the self and with the other are the fundamental scaffolding of human existence. To understand them is to understand the world we inhabit; the encounter with the other obligates us to look back into ourselves, to put ethics before knowledge, responsibility before identity.