Marisa Cornejo, Dream with Ramon Grosfoguel, oil on metal 25 x 40 cm, 2020

This is a selection of a series of contemporary ex-votos (an ex-voto is a votive offering to a saint or to a divinity) that I painted during the confinement.
These paintings are dreams I had with philosophers that had inspired and supported my artistic practice and research of the last few years.
These ex-votos about my dreams guide my life and give me courage to continue my singular path.

Marisa Cornejo, The skin of shame, oil on metal, 25 x 40 cm, 2020

Marisa Cornejo, Dream with Ramon Grosfoguel, oil on metal 25 x 40 cm, 2020

Marisa Cornejo is an artist based in both Switzerland and France. She has a Bachelors Degree in Visual Arts from the UNAM, Mexico and a Masters Degree from the CCC, HEAD, Geneva, Switzerland. Marisa was born in Santiago de Chile in 1971 and left with her family after the coup d”Etat in 1973, to live in exile in Argentina 1973-76, Bulgaria 1977-78, Belgium 1978-80, Mexico 1980-98 where she studied dance, visual arts and collaborated in the art collective La Panadería in México City. In 1998, she moved to England where she became a mother and 2002 found her in Brussels, Belgium. Since 2005 she is in Geneva where she works with the themes of memory, identity and forced migration through drawing her dreams as an artist researcher.
www.marisacornejo.com