Alicia.Medina

When the ruins bloom, 2011-(work in process)

performance.video.

This project is a tribute to the situations that emotionally shake us, unbalanced, disarm.
Those moments that make us uncomfortable but that show us as we are, without masks or characters.
It's a tribute to every king that has fallen down from their pedestal inside us: love,family, government, religion, salvation, childhood, past, future, the uncontrolled anger, the irrefutable reason, dishonor, disgrace, princesses in a castle, heroes.
I intend to build a monument to shame, a monument that reminds us who we are behind the character of every day.

Father's Death 2011,color

La Caída del Padre from Alicia Medina on Vimeo.

MeHolesMe 2011,color

MeHolesMe from Alicia Medina on Vimeo.
Falacias 2011,color

Falacias from Alicia Medina on Vimeo.

Mama is a Bear, 2010

My ugly weenie 2010, color

2:29 min

The Mama Bear is sitting on a chair holding her baby (a 6-legged pig) while repeats:

"My son is not ugly, is special

My son is not ugly, is a rare beauty

If my child is ugly is because God wanted.

Feeding my babies with my penis 2010, color

2:29 min

This action refer to the ritual: slaughter of the penis (Mayan culture). The mother bear gives her penis to feed the earth and her children.

God, forgive my babies, please! 2010, color

2:29 min

Mama Bear goes on her knees on the path as an act of repentance for the forgiveness of her children.

My New Mexikan Family, 2010

Jokes, sausages, hot sauce, fake mustache, Mom and Dad, fan air, asses, an incomprehensible language, a strange mixture of cliches and Mexican humor plus my experience in Germany, is what my new mexican family tries to reflect .

My New Mexikan Family from Alicia Medina on Vimeo.

To save our minds, 2009-2010

performance.video

Sufis 2009, b/w

7:28 min

I realized the Sufi’s dance falling and rising every time, a trial and error example; a desperate amate

ur tried to make the dance as a key to access the divine.

The Preacher 2009, b/w

5:45 min.

The action is an allegory of false preachers who promise the redemption of souls.

Forgiveness 2009, b/w

6:59 min

A ritual of writing the synonyms of "Salvation" in parts of the body and after some seconds lick them.

The Ship of Fools 2009, b/w

4:29 min

“Allow the fools run the heart of the world”

(from my conditional love to "The ship of fools" by Hieronymus Bosch)

La Nave de los Locos from Alicia Medina on Vimeo.

Burn the ships b/w

5:30min.

The action takes place in a bathroom, a television that features a maimed man, someone who despises humans, a fighter who pretends to be a hero and a man that blesses even the smallest ant VS. a person that hits her back in the wall as a repentance action of forgiveness.