MURIEL URIBE

Cluster Digital Exhibitor | Cluster Crafts | 2022

Muriel Uribe is a young visual artist that lives in Mexico City. Their practice centres around combining text and image to create hybrid languages that allow multiple interpretations. Using mainly drawing, ceramics, textile and video, Muriel aims to reimagine the ways in which we communicate. Their artworks have been exhibited in galleries and museums such as Blech Raüm für Kunst Halle, in Halle, Germany, and Museo Soumaya, in Mexico City. They are currently studying for their Bachelor’s in Fine Art at the National School of Paint, Sculpture and Engraving “La Esmeralda” in Mexico City.

Abecedario mezclado | Letra 3 | Moshimoshi

Abecedario mezclado |Letra 4 | Carambolo

These pieces are part of Abecedario, a larger series of textile pieces that work together as a speculative language. All the pieces of Abecedario are the result of imagining what would a tridimensional language look like, along with the changes that would arise if symbols were something we could touch with our hands. By being held, felt, and played with, the pieces work together as a language that is meant to incite thought through the hands. By doing so, the soft and malleable nature of textile stands against the logical and cold way language is viewed, creating a code of sensations rather than a rational one. Abecedario proposes a game to view language as a way of interacting with the physical world.

Abecedario mezclado| Letra 5 | Mantarraya

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Abecedario mezclado | Letra 7 | Multipass

Muriel Uribe is a young non-binary artist whose artworks centre on language and how to transgress its limits using imagination. Mainly using drawing, textile and video in their artistic practice, Muriel´s artworks focus on mixing image and text, creating hybrid languages that allow multiple interpretations.

They are interested in the change in meaning that is produced by reading text and image simultaneously, always looking to play with the codes we use to communicate amongst us and often to overlook. In another different line of work, Muriel is interested in exploring different myths from different ancient civilizations to reinterpret them and find new ways in which old stories can be told in more contemporary mediums and audiences. Always exploring new ways to interact and think ways in which we express and communicate ourselves, Muriel Uribe´s work proposes new ways in which to reimagine and interact with our surroundings, mainly our linguistic environments.